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[fetchmail] Clear text password

2002-08-23 07:44:44
Hi there

To start off... I did find the section in the FAQ about this. But 
it either does not apply to or (and this is likely) I don't 
understand what it says. I wich case I appoligize.....

For another problem I installed ethereal and found out that my 
password and account name is send in clear text to a IMAP server.
When I use the mozilla client I do not see the password.

I'm using a Slackware 8.1 on which I allready upgraded the 
fetchmail package to a version 5.9.13 (and added NTLM)

The output on fetchmail -V is:
=====================================================
bash-2.05a# fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 5.9.13+NTLM+SSL+NLS
Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux sysop-2 2.4.18 #4 Fri May 31 01:25:31 PDT 2002 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /root/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /root/.fetchids
Progress messages will be logged via syslog
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to pkn.
Options for retrieving from 
p(_dot_)kaagman(_dot_)atlascollege(_dot_)nl(_at_)imap(_dot_)kennisnet(_dot_)nl:
  True name of server is imap.kennisnet.nl.
  Protocol is IMAP.
  All available authentication methods will be tried.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
  Fetched messages will be kept on the server (--keep on).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval 
(--flush off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits 
off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
  Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.
Options for retrieving from 
sysops(_dot_)atlascollege(_dot_)nl(_at_)imap(_dot_)kennisnet(_dot_)nl:
  True name of server is imap.kennisnet.nl.
  Protocol is IMAP.
  All available authentication methods will be tried.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
  Fetched messages will be kept on the server (--keep on).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval 
(--flush off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits 
off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
  Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.
bash-2.05a#
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Some info I got off the IMAP server:
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bash-2.05a# telnet imap.kennisnet.nl 143
Trying 212.178.7.166...
Connected to imap.kennisnet.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Netscape Messaging Multiplexor ready
help CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY STARTTLS IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=LOGIN 
AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=EXTERNAL
help OK CAPABILITY completed
query capability
* CAPABILITY STARTTLS IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=LOGIN 
AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=EXTERNAL
query OK CAPABILITY completed
=================================================

Hope anybody can help

regard

Peter Kaagman

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