Rajeev Jha saw fit to inform LI that:
>to use fetchmail i am putting .fetchmailrc in my home directory and
>starting fetchmail when i log in . but say , the .fetchmailrc contains
>my passwd in pure text , isn't this a worry ? i mean okay for my box ,
>but in a sharing - environment ?
Don't make your .fetchmailrc readable to others. Simple as that.
$ ls -l .fetchmailrc
-rwx--x--- 1 sureshr sureshr 166 Jun 1 21:22 .fetchmailrc
If somebody knows your login's password, you're screwed anyway :)
hth
-suresh
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