The 6.6.0 release of fetchmail is available (TLS support for SMTP, incl. STARTTLS)
Matthias Andree via Fetchmail-announce <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:51:54 +0100
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The 6.6.0 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/>
and <https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/releases#6.6.0>
Distributors: please install the revived Italian translation!
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The source archive is available at:
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6=
=2E6.0.tar.xz/download>
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1b/fetchmail-6.6.0.tar.xz>
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NOTE that fetchmail-6.5.X will go out of support at the end of 2025.
The 6.6.0 release does not intentionally change configuration files,
command line arguments, or behavior, and should therefore be a drop-in
compatible replacement for 6.5.X releases.
Here are the release notes:
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fetchmail-6.6.0 (released 2025-10-27, 32381 LoC):
## FEATURE:
* SMTP TLS and STARTTLS support. By default, this works opportunistically,
attempting to set up a TLS connection to the smtphost if it understands E=
HLO
and offers STARTTLS, but will not enforce peer certificate validity for
compatibility, esp. because "localhost" (the default SMTP host) usually
isn't listed in the X.509 certificates.
Behavior can be tweaked by adding /notls (cleartext connection), /tls
(TLS-wrapped connection, negotiating TLS before conversing otherwise),
or /starttls (requiring EHLO to offer STARTTLS, requesting the latter and
requiring the server certificate to validate) to the SMTP host's name.
Also, you can add /tlsproto=3D... where ... accepts the same parameters
as the --sslproto option, which see.
Ports, if not specified, default to 25 for opportunistic and /notls modes,
465 for /tls and 587 for /starttls, but can be overridden either by givin=
g,
say /25 or /smtp for /starttls.
## TRANSLATIONS were updated by these fine people (randomized order):
* it: Luca Vercelli [Italian]
* pl: Jakub Bogusz [Polish]
* fr: Fr=E9d=E9ric Marchal [French]
* sv: G=F6ran Uddeborg [Swedish]
* sq: Besnik Bleta [Albanian]
* ro: Remus-Gabriel Chelu [Romanian]
* ja: Takeshi Hamasaki [Japanese]
* de: Matthias Andree [German]
* cs: Petr Pisar [Czech]
* eo: Keith Bowes [Esperanto]
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