POP3 is depreciated because you can sniff your POP3 password
if you have root privilege on your machine.
To sniff your POP3 password, use tcpdump. First install it.
# apt-get install tcpdump |
Run tcpdump in this way (running tcpdump requires root privilege):
$ touch result
$ chmod 600 result
# tcpdump -w result |
Replace "result" with your favorite file name.
Use fetchmail normally, and your POP3 password will be written
to the file "result". The easiest (but not always correct) way
to see it is to use the command "strings" in the package
"binutils".
# apt-get install binutils
$ strings result |
The output of "strings" may have a line like this:
This may be your POP3 password.