Re: another silly question
On 2005-05-08 18:13:21 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There are drawbacks, starting by the fact that fetchmail has the bad
> > habit of losing mail (and getmail is bad for security as it needs a
> > password stored on the disk).
>
> getmail is not bad for security, and getmail does not need a
> password stored on disk. If it isn't supplied in the configuration
> file, it will prompt the user at runtime.
However, this solution is not convenient. This isn't necessarily
specific to getmail, though. I don't know fetchmail (since I drop
it very fast), but it may have the same problem. With Mutt, I can
type my password once, and that's all (until I quit Mutt, which I
almost never do). If getmail can run in background (as a daemon),
keeping the IMAP connection open, then this would be fine.
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