From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-144-136-137-64.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.137.64] helo=data.home ident=mail) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wAk2-0000RA-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:18:22 -0400 Received: from geoff (helo=localhost) by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17wAn8-00066D-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:21:34 +1000 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:21:34 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: fetchmail devlivery success tnx Chuck In-Reply-To: <20020930222430.GA31918@lrxms.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Scott Howell wrote: > Right, but what I was saying is there must be some method by which you > could have a separate password to retrieve mail from the box you have an > account on from outside your own network. Of course this is if you happen > to have a mail program that doesn't support encryption. This might well be possible and I've also read about funky things like tunneling fetchmail through ssh. But the normal state of affairs is that both passwords are the same. This is why the fetchmail docs caution against retrieving mail across an open network. Geoff.