fetchmail and plain text password

[Anton Shterenlikht]

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
> > >  > your mailserver allows it. 
> > >  
> > >  it looks like it doesn't allow ssl.
> > 
> > 	It is my understanding ISPs - at least those in the
> > 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 these
> kinds of services.
> 
> But I would expect a university network (which I understand what the OP is
> talking about) to offer something more sophisticated than plain POP3. I would

it's IMAP-4 server, whatever that means..

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