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Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to mh-profile.man
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valdis . kletnieks |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to mh-profile.man |
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Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:42:40 -0400 |
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:46:53 -0000, Larry Hynes said:
> Does the following actually make sense? (I have my doubts.)
>
> The password for POP service when the -sasl switch is used
> with one of these programs is the login name on the local
> machine.
To the extent that it makes sense, it's *wrong*. It doesn't use your
login name as the POP password.
What it does is take the -user value (or login name if -user not passed),
and use that to look up a line in .netrc.
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