Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 05:18:17 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Richard Lyon <rlyon@ozemail.com.au>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: popclient Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951230051655.714C-100000@ncc-1701-d> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951229161929.11214E-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM>
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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. **
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