On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:11:50 +0000 Anton Shterenlikht <[email protected]> replied:
>On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> > I use fetchmail >> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html >> > to download all my mail from the Uni mail >> > server to my fbsd box. >> > >> > I typically run it in daemon mode, which requires >> > having my mail server password in plain text in .fetchmailrc >> > >> > I'm a little worried about the security of having >> > my password in plain text on the system. I ran across this URL: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html It might be what you are looking for. -- Jerry [email protected] |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | Justice always prevails ... three times out of seven! Michael J. Wagner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
