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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2001-03-02 23:31:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2001-03-02 23:31:14 +0000 |
| commit | f6ef1ccd435fcb05c3d13086b0227741ff1dbba8 (patch) | |
| tree | 65c0256c7bd7636c99c3c21bf83c40f89d962cfc | |
| parent | a44089c1d09f5c8edd10d79facd7de22b4b0d308 (diff) | |
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Typo fixes.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index cc3654de..bf1239bf 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1970,15 +1970,6 @@ queries more than one host, return status is 0 if \fIany\fR query successfully retrieved mail. Otherwise the returned error status is that of the last host queried. -.SH AUTHOR -Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. Too many other people to -name here have contributed code and patches. -This program is descended from and replaces -.IR popclient , -by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>; the internals have become quite different, -but some of its interface design is directly traceable to that -ancestral program. - .SH FILES .TP 5 ~/.fetchmailrc @@ -2047,17 +2038,15 @@ mailserver-side filter that consolidates the contents of all envelope headers into a single one (procmail, mailagent, or maildrop can be programmed to do this fairly easily). .PP -Use of some of these protocols (POP2, POP3, or POP4 with the password -authentication type, if the server doesn't have CRAM-MD5 capability) -requires that the program send unencrypted passwords over the TCP/IP -connection to the mailserver. This creates a risk that name/password -pairs might be snaffled with a packet sniffer or more sophisticated -monitoring software. Under Linux and FreeBSD, the --interface option -can be used to restrict polling to availability of a specific -interface device with a specific local or remote IP address, but -snooping is still possible if (a) either host has a network device -that can be opened in promiscuous mode, or (b) the intervening network -link can be tapped. +Use of some of these protocols requires that the program send +unencrypted passwords over the TCP/IP connection to the mailserver. +This creates a risk that name/password pairs might be snaffled with a +packet sniffer or more sophisticated monitoring software. Under Linux +and FreeBSD, the --interface option can be used to restrict polling to +availability of a specific interface device with a specific local or +remote IP address, but snooping is still possible if (a) either host +has a network device that can be opened in promiscuous mode, or (b) +the intervening network link can be tapped. .PP Use of the %F or %T escapes in an mda option could open a security hole, because they pass text manipulable by an attacker to a shell @@ -2099,6 +2088,15 @@ available at the fetchmail home page; surf to http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail or do a WWW search for pages with `fetchmail' in their titles. +.SH AUTHOR +Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. Too many other people to +name here have contributed code and patches. +This program is descended from and replaces +.IR popclient , +by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>; the internals have become quite different, +but some of its interface design is directly traceable to that +ancestral program. + .SH SEE ALSO mutt(1), elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8), netrc(5) .SH APPLICABLE STANDARDS |