Re: [Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail without passwords in plaintext file?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 18.11.18 um 19:08 schrieb Susan Ruiz:
> Hi, to retrieve my emails using POP3, both from gmail and from my
> company email account, I am working with fetchmail version 6.3.26, I
> would like to know if there is any way to avoid leaving my password in
> the .fetchmailrc file.
>
> How to encrypt it? Thanks in advance

Susan,

There is no encryption option. You could use a .netrc file to save
passwords instead, but that would not be encrypted either.

If you are running fetchmail from a shell (not from cron), you can omit
the passwords from .fetchmailrc and .netrc files, and fetchmail will ask
you for all of them. This should also work with daemon mode, so you
enter them once and fetchmail polls every N seconds (whatever --daemon
delay you give it).

Hope that helps.

Matthias