fetchmail devlivery success tnx Chuck

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  It's a bad idea to use the same password for your mail account with
your isp and your local login.  My local login to my box is "kennyhitt"
just like my mail account with knology.  The passwords have nothing in
common so if someone gets my mail password they won't have a clue in
guessing my password for my Linux box.  Since my global fetchmailrc for
my box is not readable by any normal user, you will have to be root to
even know its there.  Of course the password for the mail account is
sent in plain text, it will be possible for someone watching my traffic
to get it.  Also the fetchmail daenon runs as user fetchmail so breaking
fetchmail will only get you my mail password and nothing else.

          Kenny

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 09:48:56PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> You could very well put the password in there, but I imagine the big
> problem here is no ability to force your isp to use some form of security
> for passwords unless they use apop or pop3 with ssl. Should be an option
> in any case.
> 
> I wonder better yet if you have an account on box X for example, your
> user account has the user name of user name and the account password is
> fubar, then I wonder if there would be a means to use itsfubared as a
> mail password instead. The purpose of this would be that is you only had
> pop3 which would transmit your password in cleartext, then using an
> alternate password would at least provide you a means to protect your
> account, but yet still retrieve your mail from where.
> I imagine if you had a spare box and dedicated it to mail it would be all
> good, but well that might be the case. Any thoughts folks?
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 05:41:17PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi all. Well in my case, fetchmailrc is nowhere to be found so gotta
> > create it manually. However I already have a checkmail script that can run
> 
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