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Re: How to develop an automatic gnus mail set up thing for gnus users.
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: How to develop an automatic gnus mail set up thing for gnus users. |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:27:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> writes:
> There are certain small problems with that form:
>
> 1)What if I don't have a fully qualified domain name. (I do, but what
> if I didnt', what if i'm a floating dynamic ip?)
It seems the setting isn't used (much) in the resulting config.
> 2)You don't ask about the mail username, explicitly. Is the username
> the same thing as the pop username? Then why is there (system) in
> quotation. My mail username and system username are different.
Good question.
> 3)Sending password in cleartext is not very safe...
> I don't believe in security, but some people do.
I trust that people can enter XYZ and then replace that with their
passwd :-)
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