From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:47:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1rlu0v9.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87wppvc52x.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456357693 1641 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2016 23:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:48:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 00:48:03 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYjA2-0004eL-Dp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:48:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYjA1-0006Hg-KX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:48:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYj9q-0006HS-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:47:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYj9n-0006F8-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:47:50 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYj9n-0006Ec-2G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:47:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYj9k-0004Sw-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:47:44 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-170.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:47:44 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-170.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:47:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 60 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-170.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RFm4t6PtatlRP+VlACwbNUTtD7Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109301 Archived-At: writes: > Thanks for the quick response. Hint: use citing (quoting) just like we do and it'll be even faster and more pleasant to answer your posts. And this will be even easier for you if you get Rmail or Gnus working, tho what I remember even Hotmail in the 90s did that... > Is wondering if it was strictly necessary to enter > my password inside my code, wouldn't it be a major > security issue? *Laughter* No, that is entirely optional! I disabled the login password to my computer many years ago and a couple of years later did the same with Internet and mail login. I actually don't know how big a security issue it is. Certainly if the computer gets stolen, but if that happens, it would be such a waste if the thief wasn't able to use all my awesome tools :) As for the mails, I already have them on the disk so with the login password disabled I don't see the mail ditto doing much good save for perhaps the thief being able to spoof my accounts. But this is all with the assumption the computer gets stolen physically by a computer literate thief. This is so unlikely I don't worry one bit. >From a "remote" point of view, it would be interesting to know how much an issue it is and how it could be exploited. Does it matter that much if you enter the data from your fingertips or if a program does it for you? One way of not having to have it in text is to have a function that calculates it each time. It would be virtually the same only one more obstacle. > I also have a problem with my init file, as emacs > can't detect it. I have created one at > ~/.emacs.d/init.el, but this folder is protected > (only accessible via su), which forces me to use > emacs under sudo. Is there any way to solve > these problems? It shouldn't be like that. How did you install Emacs? What Unix/Linux distro are you on? Reinstallation is an option. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573