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From: Emily Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] POP mail security
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:52:29 +1100
> "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Emily Cartier wrote:
> That's odd. When I use man, it usually acts as if it's piped through
> less to begin with. More doesn't need a 'q' to end, but less does.
On some systems, more is less. :) Either an alias or a symlink.
C.
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On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:52:29 +1100
"Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Laurel Fan wrote:
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> > If the asker does know how to do all of this, and is insulted, I'm
> > sorry, but I'm glad you're insulted because you just wasted my time.
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> Actually, you didn't waste your time - I d
"Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The list also specifically says not to tell people to RTFM. I appreciate
> that that was not your intention, but I recall glancing at your answer and
> thinking 'uh, that's perilously close to a blunt RTFM. A newbie is going to
> be put off and upset by tha
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Jenn V."@simegen.com
> if I know I'm planning to search a man page I pipe
> it through less. I can save myself a step now. :)
If you prefer less, you can set the environment variable PAGER to less.
It can be set to anything, b
Laurel Fan wrote:
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> If the asker does know how to do all of this, and is insulted, I'm
> sorry, but I'm glad you're insulted because you just wasted my time.
Actually, you didn't waste your time - I didn't realise 'man' was paged
with 'more' typically - if I know I'm planning to search a ma
Excerpts from linuxchix: 8-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Jenn V."@simegen.com
> Presumably, since I /think/ the original requester wrote saying 'I looked
> there', she didn't.
Well, the original requester didn't say anything about having looked
anywhere. Note that the original reque
Laurel Fan wrote:
> I don't know where you get that I was telling her to search "useless
> sources of information". I merely explained how I would go about
> looking for that answer, and I think it was useful, since I found the
> answer about 3 times, in one form or another.
Presumably, since
Excerpts from linuxchix: 7-Jan-100 RE: [techtalk] POP mail sec.. by
"Linda Walsh"@sgi.com
> I typed man on pop, pop3, imap and imap4 and they all came up
> null.
Would it help you if I pasted the relevant part of the fetchmail
manpage? Would it help you if I said the manpage for fetchma
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:
> It so happens this whole bit of POP security was going through
> my head as I was evaluating the idea of getting a service provider
> email address in case I moved jobs. I requirement would be the ability
> to automatically (perl script) pull the me
> -Original Message-
> From: Laurel Fan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 6:47 PM
> To: Linux Ladies
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] POP mail security
>
> > Most unix programs come with documentation. Usually this is in the form
> of a man(ual) page. These c
Try looking up about APOP authentication. Not all POP servers support it
though, and I don't know what mail client support for APOP is like, but I
think fetchmail is quite happy with it. APOP takes your username and
password, and creates and md5 hash of the password and a timestamp returned
b
Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Jan-100 [techtalk] POP mail security by Subba
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> What is the best way to protect my users passwords from being sniffed?
> Can a user use an encrypted tunnel to send the userid and password to
> the pop server?
Most unix programs come with documentation
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