Re: Fetchmail without passwords in plaintext file?
Matthias Andree <[email protected]>
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Am 12.12.18 um 14:07 schrieb Bjoern Voigt: > Gene Heskett wrote: >> While I realize there is a need for encrypted passwd's in the more densly >> populated and/or industrial areas where business critical information >> might be sought by the shadier types, that need has not reached out here >> in the puckerbrush. Yet... I am not aware of any pop3 server in this >> moderately rural area, ever asking us to use encrypted passwds. Not >> saying there aren't such isp's but I've not encountered any yet. What >> I'm saying is that forcing it on us, would force us to find another >> fetchmail like agent. In fact, they've not even forced us to longer >> passwds yet. I'd druther they did, to at least 20 alpha/numeric chars >> but too many winders users think 12345 or 54321Boom is good enough. >> And they are the majority by far. I'm an island of all linux stuff here. > Gene, I do not think, that Fetchmail will force us to store passwords > encrypted. But I think, Fetchmail should ofter at least one working > interface to an encrypted password store or password manager. And I > think, the Fetchmail documentation should recommend to store passwords > encrypted. Björn, you may want to get fetchmail's master branch from Git or possibly the 7.0.0-alpha6 tarball (*) and let us know what you think of either passwordeval and/or PWMD support. (*) currently at <http://krusty.dt.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de/~ma/fetchmail/> HTH Matthias _______________________________________________ Fetchmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fetchmail-users