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Read the SMTP password from a file as opposed to the command-line argument #2

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@digout digout commented Aug 19, 2013

The [-xp PASSWDORD] option can be considered a security hole since allows anybody logged on the node to inspect the process arguments and intercept the value with "ps" os through the /proc/ FS.

This patch introduces the additional option [-xp-file FILE] which tells the program to read the password from the FILE. This is more secure, since the file permissions can be set to restrict access according to Unix owner/groups.

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