fetchmail and plain text password

[Jerry]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +0000
RW <rwmaillists at 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: 
>
>http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why

That "article" is grossly out of date. Furthermore, D. J. Bernstein
created an MTA that was a back-scatters dream. Then, he abandoned it.

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