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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2002-02-01 02:14:24 +0000
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/12/25 04:55:14 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/02/01 02:14:23 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -1853,6 +1853,11 @@ this will suffice. If you have them installed in a non-default
location, you'll need to specify it as an argument to --with-ssl after
an equal sign.
+<p>Note that there is a known bug in the implementation of SSL_peek
+under OpenSSL versions 0.9.5 and older that fetchmail occasionally
+tripped over, causing hangs. It is recommended that you install 0.9.6
+or later.
+
<p>Fetchmail binaries built this way support <code>ssl</code>,
<code>sslkey</code>, and <code>sslcert</code> options that control
SSL encryption. You will need to have an SSL-enabled mailserver
@@ -1868,7 +1873,7 @@ probably means your OS doesn't have that device.<p>.
An interactive program could seed the random number generator from
keystroke timings or some other form of user input. Because fetchmail
-is primarily designed to run forever as a background daemon, that option
+is primarily designed to run forever as a background daemon, that
option is not available in this case.
<hr>
@@ -2988,7 +2993,7 @@ date from the last Received header.<p>
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/12/25 04:55:14 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/02/01 02:14:23 $
</table>
<ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>