Re: [fetchmail-users] Error messages with fetchmail 6.3.8

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 5/15/07, Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptk...@gm...> wrote:
> It should be kinda encryption, my password or messages are encoded and can't be read by any intermediate persons. And only the server has an algorithm to decode it. So nobody can steal my password or messages. If I'm wrong, pls correct me.

Well sort of.

Only your connection to the remote server is encrypted by SSL/TLS.
The email will make its way to the server unencrypted and is stored in
the clear on the server, so it is only the last hop that you're
protecting.

Of course, that does protect your username and password, if you are
using PLAIN or LOGIN authentication.  If you can it is better to use
one of the stronger methods, but that's down to what the remote
POP/IMAP server supports (and what you have compiled into fetchmail)

> Can I skip step 1) and carry on with steps 2), 3) and 4)?
> I have the binary of /usr/local/bin/cvsup

Yup, that will be fine.

> But I only use text mode no GUI.

Never used the GUI version so I can assure you that is ok.

> I still question.
> after updating port and make install under /usr/ports/security/ca-roots,
> what shall i do next with my .fetchmailrc?

You may not have to do anything, try restarting fetchmail (or stopping
it and running "fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv -c" to do a mail
check).  If everything is in the expected locations then the error
will go away.

> BTW I shall read fetchmail(1) anyway, but I can say that it is very hard for noobies to understand.

That is something others have said and I have already said that, when
I have the time, I will help the project re-write it.  Having a one
year old child means I have little free time :)

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