Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap
> > > server? Without fetchmail?
> >
> > Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky
> > things with it like
> >
> > mutt -f imaps://y...@yourserver.edu/~otheruser/somefolder/so
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:16:51PM +0600, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap
> > server? Without fetchmail?
>
> Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky
> things with it like
>
> mutt -f
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap
> server? Without fetchmail?
Certainly. mutt is a very good IMAP client, you can do some tricky
things with it like
mutt -f imaps://y...@yourserver.edu/~otheruser/somefolder/somemailbox
or even
mutt -f
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +
RW articulated:
>BTW personally I use getmail instead of fetchmail, I've not used
>fetchmail much, but I've read a lot of bad things about it - some of
>which are mentioned here:
>
>http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why
That "article" is g
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:26:42PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > Why not just point your preferred mail client at the imap server?
> > That way you can access your mail from anywhere (probably via
> > webmail too) Some imap clients, such as thunderbird and kmail, will
> > let you store your
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +, RW wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +
> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I might be wrong, but that's my understanding.
> > So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their
> > imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably
> > no
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I might be wrong, but that's my understanding.
> So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their
> imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably
> not very welcome.
You probably are wrong, it's more a case of you
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:21:30 +0100
Roland Smith wrote:
> In other words, a proper IMAP server does not permit plaintext
> passwords.
No, it MUST be implemented, but only SHOULD be used.
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:44:21PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> it doesn't work like that..
>
> I think it's an imap server.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to get in touch with them.
> One of the problems is that the Uni are trying to
> implement a system where mail is never downloaded from the
> m
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> >
> > Anton Shterenlikht writes:
> > > > I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over
> > > > the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > U.S. oriented to the home user - rarely do, It's a non-trivial
> > amount of work to get working and then monitor for correct behavior
> > and possible breaches.
>
> Agreed. Which is exactly why I like xs4all so much. :-) They do p
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Anton Shterenlikht writes:
> > > I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over
> > > the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if
> > > your mailserver allows it.
> >
> > it looks like it
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
> > I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over
> > the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if
> > your mailserver allows it.
>
> it looks like it doesn't allow ssl.
It is my understanding ISPs - at least those i
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:11:50 +
Anton Shterenlikht replied:
>On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> > I use fetchmail
>> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:11:50AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >
> > With these changes, only you and the superuser can read that file.
>
> yes, an attacker gaining superuser access is my worry.
> I'm reading Garfinkel and Spafford (1996) Practical UNIX & internel security
> (a bit out of
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 .
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, 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 fb
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, 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
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
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