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Re: fetchmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 16 13:26:16 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:19:23 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Randy Smith wrote:
> > then chmod 0644 .fetchmailrc and type fetchmail -v to verify it's
> > output.
>
> Just a note: My version of fetchmail will not run with perms on
> .fetchmailrc greater then 600. RH 5.0
Mine won't either. RH 5.1. Reason is that your password is
there, naked, for all to see if it had read permissions for
anyone else. Makes sense.
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