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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:48 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fetchmail and plain text password
Message-ID:  <20091230101248.GA74666@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20091230081651.GA88089@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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> <20091230081651.GA88089@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:16:51PM +0600, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap
> > server? Without fetchmail?
> 
> Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky
> things with it like 
> 
> mutt -f imaps://you@yourserver.edu/~otheruser/somefolder/somemailbox

wow! that's so easy, why didn't I find this before..

thanks a lot for this hint!

Is it possible to run it as a daemon, so that I don't have to
enter password each time?

many thanks
anton

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Anton Shterenlikht
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