fetchmail and plain text password

[Victor Sudakov]

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://you@yourserver.edu/~otheruser/somefolder/somemailbox
> 
> wow! that's so easy, why didn't I find this before..
> 
> thanks a lot for this hint!
> 
> Is it possible to run it as a daemon, so that I don't have to
> enter password each time?

I don't think so. You either have to use Kerberos like I do (mutt
supports GSSAPI), or you have to store you password in ~/.mutt/muttrc
(see the "imap_pass" directive etc). Yes, in cleartext.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru