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Hi all, the mail-notification applet wish can be used with gnome is a disaster . this applet allow the user to get notification whenever he get a mail from many ...
  1. 08-19-2007 #1
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    mail-notification not secure at all

    Hi all,

    the mail-notification applet wish can be used with gnome is a disaster . this applet allow the user to get notification whenever he get a mail from many mails account can be set , but the *BIG* problem is that this applet store the passwords in a non encrypted files . interested

    ~/.gnome2/mail-notification/mailboxes.xml

    <mailbox type="gmail" username="*******" password="*******"/>

    as you see is a normal xml file wish shows clearly the password !!!!!
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    Author does not view it as a bug https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?fu...&item_id=18893 so it isn't going to get "fixed".
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    Yes it's not a bug, it's a missing feature , well Linux should be always secure, gnome-keyring can be used in this !
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