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

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

Am 12.12.18 um 14:07 schrieb Bjoern Voigt:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> While I realize there is a need for encrypted passwd's in the more densly
>> populated and/or industrial areas where business critical information 
>> might be sought by the shadier types, that need has not reached out here 
>> in the puckerbrush. Yet... I am not aware of any pop3 server in this 
>> moderately rural area, ever asking us to use encrypted passwds. Not 
>> saying there aren't such isp's but I've not encountered any yet.  What 
>> I'm saying is that forcing it on us, would force us to find another 
>> fetchmail like agent. In fact, they've not even forced us to longer 
>> passwds yet. I'd druther they did, to at least 20 alpha/numeric chars 
>> but too many winders users think 12345 or 54321Boom is good enough.
>> And they are the majority by far. I'm an island of all linux stuff here.
> Gene, I do not think, that Fetchmail will force us to store passwords
> encrypted. But I think, Fetchmail should ofter at least one working
> interface to an encrypted password store or password manager. And I
> think, the Fetchmail documentation should recommend to store passwords
> encrypted.


Björn,

you may want to get fetchmail's master branch from Git or possibly the
7.0.0-alpha6 tarball (*) and let us know what you think of either
passwordeval and/or PWMD support.

(*) currently at <http://krusty.dt.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de/~ma/fetchmail/>

HTH

Matthias