From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18407 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norbert Koch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pop password Date: 07 Nov 1998 13:47:30 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156937 6005 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA07806 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 08:48:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB16610; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 07:47:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 07 Nov 1998 07:47:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23056 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 07:47:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.delta-ii.de (root@mail.delta-ii.de [195.180.229.162]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA07800 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 08:47:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by mail.delta-ii.de (Smail3.2.0.103/lists.delta-ii.de) via Delta-II for mailhost.sclp.com id m0zc7m6-001nsoC; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:47:30 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "(ding)" Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: viteno X-Organization: DELTA Industrie Informatik GmbH X-URL: http://www.delta-ii.de X-Face: iq-"D}ZS'It[NXourO#`D+JoJC>bZPU\xvX4Um\sR}_zUI?R:lt{Y/s1g[= 5L/BHY@]NxB(D?&:tCwX@Vp:YJURe}$MDZ1&/v<`C+^AVc"s/&m`Mu#s| In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "07 Nov 1998 08:26:36 -500" Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07004 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.40) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18407 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18407 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > "viteno" == Norbert Koch writes: > > viteno> Anyway, I'm wondering why I do have to set 'pop3-password'. IIRC, > viteno> 'nnmail-pop-password' should have the same effect, shouldn't it? > > Not really. You see, you should not manually set either of them. If you > do, your POP password is stored in memory, which is very bad. > > Although, properly speaking, pop3-movemail when called by Gnus should > inherit Gnus' (nnmail's) password. The appended patch should fix that. [...] Thanks for the patch, it works :-) Anyway, basically I agree with you that it's not the best thing to store the pop password (not my login passwd BTW) on disk. OTOH if this means to type the password every odd minute, it's going to become annoying over the time. If I reduce access to my mail folder wherein I keep my gnus initialisation file, only I and all sorts of BOFH are able to gain this information. But, IMO in a UNIX world I run this risk all day long. Cheers, norbert. -- Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existance that you had so wantonly bestowed?