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@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ configure option '--with-included-gettext'.
Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type:
+ ./configure --with-ssl
+
+if you have OpenSSL (and its developer packages, if separate) installed
+on your system, or if you don't or do not need SSL/TLS support:
+
./configure
The autoconfiguration script will spend a bit of time figuring out the
@@ -82,7 +87,7 @@ APOP) is available but also not included in the standard build. You
can compile it in with 'configure --enable-RPA'.
Support for Microsoft's NTLM authentication method is also available
-but also not included in the standard build. You can compile it in
+but not included in the standard build either. You can compile it in
with 'configure --enable-NTLM'.
Support for authentication using RFC1731 GSSAPI is available
@@ -102,16 +107,6 @@ directory that contains OpenSSL's "include" subdirectory), for instance:
"--with-ssl=/example/path" would assume that you have an
/example/path/include/openssl/ssl.h header file.
-To specify a fallback MUA in case local port 25 doesn't respond, this is
-not recommended, because you'll usually see differences between MTA and
-MDA use. If you wish to proceed nonetheless, do one of:
-
- configure --enable-fallback=procmail
- configure --enable-fallback=sendmail
-
-A disadvantage of using procmail is that local alias expansion
-according to /etc/aliases won't get done if we fall back to it.
-
2.2 Advanced options
Specifying --with-kerberos=DIR or --with-kerberos5=DIR will tell the