From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 30 11:32:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA09679 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 11:32:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from oasis.txdirect.net (oasis.txdirect.net [204.57.120.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09674 Sat, 30 Dec 1995 11:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rsnow@localhost) by oasis.txdirect.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA14914; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 13:32:12 -0600 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 13:32:09 -0600 (CST) From: Rob Snow To: Donald Burr cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , 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 Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Donald Burr wrote: > 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! Check the new port, It solves this problem and many more. > 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. See above... > 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. ** > > > __________________________________________________________________ Rob Snow Powered by FreeBSD rsnow@txdirect.net http://www.freebsd.org