fetchmail and plain text password

[Anton Shterenlikht]

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 the security of having
my password in plain text on the system.

Is there a more secure arrangement that would
still allow running fetchmail in daemon mode?

Or maybe there is another software solution
alltogether?

many thanks
anton


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