On 19 Jun 00, at 17:23, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> You can tunnel fetchmail via ssh of course. However, see what ESR has to
> say in the fetchmail faq -
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G9
I do ssh right now, but it slows down the retrieval(why dunno). and
I'm not sitting on a fast enough connection. My ISP has 33.6kbps
modems.
> He suggests that if you're still paranoid, tunnel your fetchmail through
> ssh and use pgp / gnupg or whatever on everything you send.
Am paranoid enough. What I want to know is why the pop authentication
feature has to rely on un-encrypted password?
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