"Mathco Tech. Dep" wrote:
>
> I have a question about fetchmail.
> Is there anyway you can specify the password
> on the command line, i want to create a script
> that goes out like every 10 minutes and check
> my mail, i suppose i have to do that with crontab,
> but to do that i have to specify the whole command
> line including the password, is this right or has
> i missunderstood it.
If you are concerened about storing the password in a file, you should
know that fecthmail will not use a ~/.fetchmailrc unless it is readable
only by the owner. You should also know that anyone can run a "ps aux"
command and see your complete command line, including the password.
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