Maybe I am overlooking something, but I could not find anything
definitive on how a user's password can be specified when trying to
incorporate mail via POP. From the scanning the source, there is a
reference to .netrc. This should be mentioned in the docs. Not
knowing about netrc (since it is a feature of ftp I nevered used -- and
"man -k netrc" gave nothing under Linux), I did modify inc.c to support
a -pass option. Hence, a user can do the following in his/her
.mh_profile:
inc: -user juser -pass somepass
I the user sets the file permission to 600 (or 400), then it provides
at least the same level of security (if you can call it that) as
the .netrc file. I have not modified msgchk.
I am curious if the .netrc method is the prefered method, or if there
is interest in the change I made. If so, I can post the patch.
I do find it odd that I can specify -user and -host, but not -pass.
Is the .netrc the only way to specify one's password currently?
--ewh
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