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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. |