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@@ -20,13 +20,16 @@ Fetchmail also fully supports authentication via GSSAPI, Kerberos 4 and 5,
RFC1938 one-time passwords, Compuserve's POP3 with RPA, Microsoft's NTLM, Demon
Internet's SDPS, or CRAM-MD5 authentication a la RFC2195.
-Fetchmail supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL or wolfSSL (only on C99
-or newer compilers), do read README.SSL for details on fetchmail's
+Fetchmail supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL or wolfSSL (the latter
+only on C99 or newer compilers), do read README.SSL for details on fetchmail's
configuration and README.SSL-SERVER for server-side requirements. NOTE! To be
compatible with earlier releases, fetchmail 6.4 default behaviour is more
relaxed than dictated by recommendations - while it does away with SSLv2, only
negotiates SSLv3 if forced to, it will by default still negotiate TLS v1.0.
+Also note that if used with wolfSSL, many texts will still read OpenSSL
+because fetchmail uses wolfSSL's OpenSSL compatibility API.
+
Portability
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