fetchmail and plain text password

[Jerry]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:11:50 +0000
Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at 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 +0000, 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 .fetchmailrc
>> > 
>> > I'm a little worried about the security of having
>> > my password in plain text on the system.

I ran across this URL:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html

It might be what you are looking for.

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com

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