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@@ -101,9 +101,13 @@ fetchmail-6.4.22 (not yet released):
TLS is better without STARTTLS - A Security Analysis of STARTTLS in the Email
Context" by Damian Poddebniak, Fabian Ising, Hanno Böck, and Sebastian
Schinzel. The paper did not mention fetchmail.
-* On IMAP connections, --auth ssh no longer prevents STARTTLS negotiation.
+* On IMAP and POP3 connections, --auth ssh no longer prevents STARTTLS
+ negotiation.
* On IMAP connections, do not permit to override a server-side LOGINDISABLED
with --auth password any more.
+* On POP3 connections, the possibility for RPA authentication (by probing with
+ an AUTH command without arguments) no longer prevents STARTTLS negotiation.
+* For POP3 connections, RPA is only attempted if the authentication type is any.
# BUG FIXES:
* On IMAP connections, when AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL fails and we have received the