* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021216 07:53]:
> also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.15.1428 +0100]:
> > The main reason I switched to this technique was to remove one more
> > cleartext password from my dotfiles. You might find it useful, though.
>
> how does that eliminate the need for a password?
RSA authentication.
> only if the server's imapd doesn't require a password if the user
> comes from localhost, which strikes me as a bad idea...
Well the user is starting their own instance of /usr/sbin/imapd, so
they have already have permission to read the file. I used to use this
method, until shell access was removed from the sever I use.
Now I just run fetchmail in daemon mode, and enter my password once. I
have something like this in my .fetchmailrc
poll imap.server.somedomain with protocol imap
set daemon 120 # Look for mail every 120 seconds.
Cheers,
Nick.
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