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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index b03544dc..e68073fd 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ editor like written in Python. .SH USER AUTHENTICATION AND ENCRYPTION -All modes except ETRN require authentication of the client. +All modes except ETRN require authentication of the client to the server. Normal user authentication in .I fetchmail is very much like the authentication mechanism of @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ by a recognized Certifying Authority. The format for the key files and the certificate files is that required by the underlying SSL libraries (OpenSSL in the general case). .PP -Finally, a word of care about the use of SSL: While above mentioned +A word of care about the use of SSL: While above mentioned setup with self-signed server certificates retrieved over the wires can protect you from a passive eavesdropper it doesn't help against an active attacker. It's clearly an improvement over sending the @@ -830,6 +830,12 @@ attack is trivially possible (in particular with tools such as dsniff, http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/). Use of an ssh tunnel (see below for some examples) is preferable if you care seriously about the security of your mailbox. +.PP +.B fetchmail +also supports authentication to the ESMTP server on the client side +according to RFC 2554. You can specify a name/password pair to be +used with the keywords `esmtpname' and `esmtppassword'; the former +defaults to the username of the calling user. .SH DAEMON MODE The @@ -1305,6 +1311,12 @@ T} principal \& T{ Set Kerberos principal (only useful with imap and kerberos) T} +esmtpname \& T{ +Set name for RFC2554 authentication to the ESMTP server. +T} +esmtppassword \& T{ +Set password for RFC2554 authentication to the ESMTP server. +T} .TE Here are the legal user options: @@ -2193,7 +2205,8 @@ mutt(1), elm(1), mail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), imapd(8), netrc(5) .SH APPLICABLE STANDARDS .TP 5 SMTP/ESMTP: -RFC 821, RFC2821, RFC 1869, RFC 1652, RFC 1870, RFC1983, RFC 1985 +RFC 821, RFC2821, RFC 1869, RFC 1652, RFC 1870, RFC 1983, RFC 1985, +RFC 2554 .TP 5 mail: RFC 822, RFC2822, RFC 1123, RFC 1892, RFC 1894 |