On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Scott Howell wrote: > Right, but what I was saying is there must be some method by which you > could have a separate password to retrieve mail from the box you have an > account on from outside your own network. Of course this is if you happen > to have a mail program that doesn't support encryption. This might well be possible and I've also read about funky things like tunneling fetchmail through ssh. But the normal state of affairs is that both passwords are the same. This is why the fetchmail docs caution against retrieving mail across an open network. Geoff.
