fetchmail & ssh

[gbell72]

Yes I'm only trying to protect my passwords and my sisters, I was playing
around with ethereal for awhile and happened to notice tht I was able to
capture her entire email conversations, along with my own.
Didn't know abt op3s but I'll take a look.

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Keith Mastin wrote:

>
> > I tried to ask technical support today whether or not this is
> > supported..But nobody there was able to tell me.  I know that fetchmail
> > supports using ssh which I'd like to use, is this possible with rogers
> > from anyones experience?
>
> You're trying to protect your pop3 password? If you get your mail from
> rogers, AFAIK your pop3 server address is simply pop3 and they
> authenticate against the mac address, but I could be wrong. Pop3 has a
> secured port that can be used.. Check your services file for something
> like spop3 or pop3s or something similar.
>
> Sorry, I don't see any advantage, but I could be misunderstanding what
> you're looking for and why. (sometimes the why gices us more info, as we
> sometimes are not quite sure of what were looking for.)
>
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