Sort of implied but I thought that I would clear it up. Using the
.fetchmailrc file with the password will NOT expose the password to ps
or anything else that I know of. I have been unig it for over a year
with no problems other thatn the fact that the isp mailserver freaks out
every now and then and fetchmail times out. I have a cron job that runs
fetchmail at 7AM every weekday so when I get the office all my mail is
there waiting for me.
Bret
"Anthony E. Greene" wrote:
>
> "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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