From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 30 05:14:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA17551 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 05:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov (root@ix-sb1-08.ix.netcom.com [204.32.201.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA17545 Sat, 30 Dec 1995 05:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from d_burr@localhost) by ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA18863; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 05:18:18 -0800 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 05:18:17 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr X-Sender: d_burr@ncc-1701-d To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Richard Lyon , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: popclient In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Richard Lyon wrote: > > > I remember seeing some mention that popclient was not working correctly. > > What is the current status of the popclient port? Are there any alternatives? > > > > My ISP does not support IMAP so POP is the only way I can go. > > use popclient release 3.0b5. an earlier version 2.12, i think is > badly broken and will throw your mail away....thats what it did to me. ;( A warning about popmail: it does not mask its argv[]... which means that everyone doing a 'w' or 'ps' can see all of the arguments that you've passed to it... INCLUDING '-p blahblah...' to set your LOGIN PASSWORD... so beware! someone should really dig into it and have it munge up its argv so that the w and ps utilities can't view its dirty little secrets. Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 TEL (805)564-1871 / FAX 564-2315 / WWW http://www.geopages.com/WallStreet/2072 PGP Public Key available by request (send e-mail) or on Public Key Servers. ** Uphold your right to privacy - Use PGP. **