storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

[Remco Post]

Robert J. Hansen wrote:
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>> most mail-clients store draft e-mails on the imap server, thunderbird
>> does this with user-interaction, others might do the same without you
>> knowing. Anything can be stored on the mailserver as a mail-message.
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> That's true.  That doesn't mean that MUAs should be thought of as
> caching your passphrases on the server.  If there were MUAs in common
> use that did this, don't you think someone would have noticed by now?
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You should if you mail yourself your passwords or passphrases. Highly
unlikely nobody would have noticed by now, but be careful with what you do.


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