[3216] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: SIPB Linux-Athena goes beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad)
Wed Nov 22 02:00:00 2000
Message-Id: <200011220300.eAM30vY32038@localhost.localdomain>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>, pylot@MIT.EDU,
Linux-Dev <linux-dev@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Message from Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
of "21 Nov 2000 13:35:26 EST." <sjm1yw5dvgx.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:00:57 -0500
From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
I'm coming in to this situation somewhat late, but this caught my eye:
> I would
> recommend against setting up a cron-job to run fetchmail all the time;
> instead I would just run it periodically by hand. Then you don't need
> tickets "all the time".
If this is your goal, you could use fetchmail to do imap over ssl, and
then run fetchmail in daemon mode. When you start it, it'll ask you
for your password, and then run periodically. Be aware that this
represents a security problem -- fetchmail then has your password, and
a clever person can make fetchmail give it up.
Hope this is helpful...
chad
