fetchmail, pop, imap, and privacy

[James Knott]

Noah John Gellner wrote:
> I use fetchmail and cron to pull messages from my university and ISP
> mail servers. I started running ettercap to check out my system and
> discovered that my usernames and password are being sent as plain text!
> Is there a better way to pull down mail?


First off, you don't need to use cron to run fetchmail.  It can be 
configured to run at intervals.  Also, all mail clients leave the 
username and password exposed, unless you can use ssl with your ISP.
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