Glenn Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since these days the MH functions are 'backend' routines to GUI frontends, 

Erm, not for everyone.  The reason I use nmh is because it _is_ a
commandline mail reader.

> it would be much better to provide command line arguments for the password.  

Only if that's not the only way to do it.  Putting your password on the
commandline is totally insecure on multiuser machines, since anyone running
the 'ps' command can glean it.

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