I second that ... it soundsa good !!

-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Homic [mailto:chuck@vvisions.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:18 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] fetchamail!

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While we're on this topic, does anyone know of any secure alternatives to Fetchmail? There's seriously a new buffer overflow announcement every week, and it's rather bothersome. I'd be happy to just use

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:11:41AM -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote: the pop3

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support in whichever mail client I'm using, but they all seem to be using the Fetchmail code. Perhaps we need OpenFetchmail? ;-)

Build fetchmail from sources, and link to electric fence.

Then a dangerous exploit becomes merely an annoying denial of service. ;)

BTW, I propose officially changing the name to the much more melodious 3-syllable FETCHAMAIL!

-Chuck

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