[Imapfilter-devel] Encrypted passwords

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:05:51PM +0000, Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> * Lefteris Chatzibarbas <lefcha at users.sourceforge.net>:
> 
> | I know it is a bit annoying, but entering one password that decrypts all
> | the other passwords is a lot better than entering each one of them (the
> | scheme with the master password is also the one used by mozilla and many
> | other programs).
> 
> Its unacceptable when the program cries at every run for a
> human input. Then no way to run the program in really
> automaticed environment.
> 
> | Anyway, storing passwords encrypted is not so important for a workstation
> | at home, so this feature can just be ignored.
> 
> Well, when you assume this function is used on a server
> where you aren't the root, it mostly means the program runs
> in remote, and prolly you would like to run it automatically
> even when you aren't logged into the server. In this case
> asking for passwords is not only annoying but makes the
> program unusable.

This morning I came with a solution to this problem.  Basically,
IMAPFilter will have a daemon mode, where it will stay on the
background and poll repeatedly at a specific (user selected) interval.
In this way, the user has to enter his master password (assuming
that password encryption is enabled) only once and until IMAPFilter
is terminated no other user intervention will be necessary.

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