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24.0.50; auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 9113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>,
	Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#9113: 24.0.50;
	auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50;
	auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg, bug#9113: 24.0.50;
	auth-sources: .authinfo versus .authinfo.gpg
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:36:51 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> I don't know about you, but I don't let Firefox store my mailbox's
> password.  I have a lot of passwords stored in Firefox's database, but
> they're all things I don't really care about (e.g. passwords to log into
> some stupid web-forums).

I think it's fairly normal to let your mail reader store your email
password.  So replace Firefox with Thunderbird or Mail.app, and the
passwords will (again) be unencrypted, I think?  Or does (say) OS X (or
Ubuntu) start a key chain when you log in, and then Thunderbird consults
that when it connects to the IMAP server?

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