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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 |