Hi. I don't think my isp supports ssl I happen to have At&t broadband over here. I never tried fetchmail in daemon mode maybe its time to play around with that. So what you basically mean is have the real password be encrypted if pop3 with ssl was supported, and then have itsfubared as the passwd to unlock the ssl key? microsoft dialogue This company has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, delete winblows and install linux close button On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Scott Howell wrote: > You could very well put the password in there, but I imagine the big > problem here is no ability to force your isp to use some form of security > for passwords unless they use apop or pop3 with ssl. Should be an option > in any case. > > I wonder better yet if you have an account on box X for example, your > user account has the user name of user name and the account password is > fubar, then I wonder if there would be a means to use itsfubared as a > mail password instead. The purpose of this would be that is you only had > pop3 which would transmit your password in cleartext, then using an > alternate password would at least provide you a means to protect your > account, but yet still retrieve your mail from where. > I imagine if you had a spare box and dedicated it to mail it would be all > good, but well that might be the case. Any thoughts folks? > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 05:41:17PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hi all. Well in my case, fetchmailrc is nowhere to be found so gotta > > create it manually. However I already have a checkmail script that can run > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
