Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:35:50 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail and plain text password Message-ID: <20091229173550.GB33613@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <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> <20091229172642.GA17698@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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--7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:26:42PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > 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. >=20 > Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap > server? Without fetchmail? Here you go: http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/ Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAks6PfYACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXZrQCZATx+JBabxBJYxAUXTBjOOSoa WJEAoJYCH7IbUxE/n2a+EY5c6ozZioDk =F2B9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7ZAtKRhVyVSsbBD2--
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