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Re: [fetchmail]fetchmail newbie | ClearText passwords?

2004-04-13 10:45:29
Evan Cooch wrote:
This works fine, but I'm wondering about the security of having my
password sitting in plaint text in my .fetchmailrc file. Are there
obvious things I could do to eliminate the need to do this? Some way to
interface fetchmail with pgp, or some such?

The best you can do is put your password in a separate .netrc file instead 
of .fetchmailrc.  That way you can let people see your fetchmail 
configuration without seeing your password, while keeping your .netrc 
better-protected.

.netrc has lines that look like:
machine machine.goes.here login xyz123 password blahblahblah

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