Stephan Krings <stephan(_at_)xmn-berlin(_dot_)de>:
Fetchmail already has code to read .netrc files. Use that --
require your users to declare their authentication secrets there.
That's a nice idea! I wasn't even aware, that fetchmail evaluates this
file, but the man-page mentions it also. I'll certainly do it that
way. The only (small) problem I'm seeing is, that you can't use
fetchmailconf then to configure the login credentials. Or this program
has to be modified also.
I'm not very worried about this. SMTP AUTH is not commonly used,
and we can expect people who need to know about it to have enough
clues to hand-edit the .netrc if they need to.
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