From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 29 17:26:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4441065679 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C958FC0A for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NPfqF-0005e3-QI; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:47 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NPfqE-00061A-T6; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:43 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBTHQgDq017724; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:42 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBTHQgD6017723; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:42 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:42 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: RW Message-ID: <20091229172642.GA17698@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091228151553.GA7478@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091228173515.GA27630@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091229111150.GA15440@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <19257.65081.681654.499622@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20091229132209.GC27042@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091229134420.GA15874@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091229165324.791c7260@gumby.homeunix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:26:49 -0000 On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +0000 > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I might be wrong, but that's my understanding. > > So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their > > imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably > > not very welcome. > > You probably are wrong, it's more a case of your not using it's full > potential. I'm not really sure why you are doing it this way, I do > something simailar, but only because I'm interested in spam-filtering. > > Why not just point your preferred mail client at the imap server? > That way you can access your mail from anywhere (probably via > webmail too) Some imap clients, such as thunderbird and kmail, will > let you store your server passworks encrypted to a master-password, so > even root can't read them. The IMAP server is probably more reliable > too. Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap server? Without fetchmail? > If you want a local copy, or use a client with poor imap support, then > offlineimap is pretty good. > > > BTW personally I use getmail instead of fetchmail, I've not used > fetchmail much, but I've read a lot of bad things about it - some of > which are mentioned here: > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why interesting.. none of this is mentioned in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423