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| author | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2010-04-06 10:10:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2010-04-06 10:10:04 +0200 |
| commit | 5cb9328ff8133c17f3e1665da2f801f027f19c71 (patch) | |
| tree | 8509b340ee34d5bb6a22f4a3b6d4ca291a9d1dce /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | e12662a0dfff752b89e035706cdd966231d052b1 (diff) | |
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Extend documentation on recent OpenSSL fix.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 9054b3b3..25b1088e 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1173,6 +1173,15 @@ username and the part to the right as the NTLM domain. .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 |