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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 8 |
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@@ -55,14 +55,16 @@ driver to SMTP. (This requires that we find a POP2 server to test with.) * Ported to QNX (see the Makefile). -* Add Michael Scwendt's code for improved sizeticker. +* Add Michael Schwendt's code for improved sizeticker. + +* Improved RFC822 parsing (thanks to Rob Funk). * Move the per-user lockfile to /tmp so it gets cleared at reboot time. * Warn users that running concurrent instances of popclient is a bad idea. * Try USER and HOME to set defaults before going to the password file. - This should work in Sun NIS environments. + This should work better in Sun NIS environments. 3.1: diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 1e112838..5e4a610e 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -597,6 +597,14 @@ encouraged people to expose passwords in scripts. Passwords must now be specified either interactively or in your .I ~/.poprc file. The short-form -p option now specifies the protocol to use. +.PP +The reason the password isn't stored encrypted is because this doesn't +actually add protection. Anyone who's acquired permissions to read your +poprc file will be able to run popclient as you anyway -- and if it's +your password they're after, they'd be able to use the necessary decoder from +.I popclient +itself to get it. All encryption would do in this context is give a +false sense of security to people who don't think very hard. .SH SEE ALSO mail(1), binmail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), RFC 937, RFC 1081, RFC 1082, RFC 1225, RFC 1460, RFC 1725. |