[ILUG] fetchmail security...

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:34:16AM +0000, John Kelly wrote:
> Of course, and kudos to him, it's a really nice idea, and one I'll
> certainly be experimenting with when I get home.

actually, kudos to whoever wrote the plugin option!  :)  all i did
was rtfm.

> However, I was simply referring to the first part of his e-mail (and
> snipped his e-mail appropriately to highlight this), where he expressed
> his apprehension of having his fetchmail password in plain text. That's

yes, and i've understood why fetchmail does what it does.  cvs has a
similar problem which they just obscure in their .cvspass files, and
in some ways i like the fact that fetchmail never did that.  but still,
i've always wanted to avoid it.

kevin

-- 
kevin at suberic.net          buffy: come on, can't you put your foot down?!
fork()'ed on 37058400      giles: it *is* down.
meatspace place: orbit     buffy: one of these days you're going to have to
http://suberic.net/~kevin         get a grown up car.  --inca mummy girl