[imapfilter-devel] IMAPFilter 1.0-rc3

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:57:05AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> >On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 02:07:29AM +0300, Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>The changes since 1.0-rc2 are:
> >>
> >> * Removed daemon mode.  Use cron(8) instead.
> >
> >Could you please say why daemon mode was removed? It would be
> >a problem where people don't have permissions to use cron.
> 
> I agree.  This change will stop me from upgrading, which is a pity.  I 
> simply don't trust passwords stored in files, which is why I use daemon 
> mode.  I may or may not be right, but it's a psychological thing for me. 
>  :-)

That's why I removed daemon mode; because the config.lua script was executed
everytime and due to its dynamic nature, the passwords are not saved somehow.
Thus, daemon mode without password stored in the configuration file would not
work (and doesn't, since 1.0-beta).

I think I have found a way to overcome this problem (passwords in memory) that
will also keep the code clean.  I will look into it later today...