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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2019-08-19 21:30:39 +0200
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@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ Internet's SDPS, or CRAM-MD5 authentication a la RFC2195.
Fetchmail supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL, do read README.SSL for
details on fetchmail's configuration and README.SSL-SERVER for server-side
-requirements. NOTE! To be compatible with earlier releases, fetchmail 6.3's
-default behaviour is more relaxed than dictated by the standard - add options
-such as --sslcertck to tighten certificate checking.
+requirements. NOTE! To be compatible with earlier releases, fetchmail 6.4
+default behaviour is more relaxed than dictated by recommendations - while it
+does away with SSLv2, only negotiates SSLv3 if forced to, it will by default
+still negotiate TLS v1.0.
Portability
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@@ -33,10 +34,10 @@ The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been extensively
tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and 10, SunOS, Solaris,
NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody once upon a time.
-The maintainer no longer has acess to these systems, and assumes that
-the system is at least Single-Unix-Specification V2 compatible, yet will
-permit a C89 compiler. It currently ships with a copy of the trio library
-for systems that lack snprintf().
+The current maintainer does not have access to these systems, and assumes that
+the system is at least Single-Unix-Specification V2 compatible, yet fetchmaiil
+should be compilable by a C89 compiler. It currently ships with a copy of the
+trio library for systems that lack snprintf().
Fetchmail should be able to be compiled with C89, C99, C11, C++98, C++03,
C++11, C++14 compilers, but not C++17 because the "register" keyword is