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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2010-04-06 10:10:04 +0200
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2010-04-06 10:10:04 +0200
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Extend documentation on recent OpenSSL fix.
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.SS Secure Socket Layers (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS)
.PP
+Note that fetchmail currently uses the OpenSSL library, which is
+severely underdocumented, so failures may occur just because the
+programmers are not aware of OpenSSL's requirement of the day.
+For instance, since v6.3.16, fetchmail calls
+OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(), which is necessary to support certificates
+with SHA256 on OpenSSL 0.9.8 -- this information is deeply hidden in the
+documentation and not at all obvious. Please do not hesitate to report
+subtle SSL failures.
+.PP
You can access SSL encrypted services by specifying the \-\-ssl option.
You can also do this using the "ssl" user option in the .fetchmailrc
file. With SSL encryption enabled, queries are initiated over a