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 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
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 fbsd box.
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 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(a bit out of date, I
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:11:50 +
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk 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
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 in the
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 doesn't allow
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 provide
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 option if
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
main
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:21:30 +0100
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl 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, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk 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
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk 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
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 server
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com 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:
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
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 my
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