Also, it should be noted that whatever version of fetchmail you've got on your machine, your going to want to upgrade it ASAP. A couple buffer overruns (via malformed mail) were just reported the other day... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Homic [mailto:chuck@vvisions.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:11 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] fetchamail! On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:44:08AM +0700, Aramico wrote:
how can I get my email using fetchamil ?
Fetchmail will use POP or IMAP to get your mail from a remote host and deposit it locally (using whatever local mail setup you have... I think it delivers to your local SMTP). Just make a .fetchmailrc with your servers/passwords and you're in business. "man fetchmail" for more info. -Chuck _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Also, it should be noted that whatever version of fetchmail you've got on your machine, your going to want to upgrade it ASAP. A couple buffer overruns (via malformed mail) were just reported the other day...
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 the pop3 support in whichever mail client I'm using, but they all seem to be using the Fetchmail code. Perhaps we need OpenFetchmail? ;-) -b
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:11:41AM -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote:
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 the pop3 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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