Re: ANNOUNCE: The 6.6.0.rc1 release of fetchmail is available (TLS/STARTTLS support for SMTP)

Compiled this one without a problem on up-to-date Artix Linux and it is
working well for my little system.  Thanks again for your good efforts!
	ax

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:09:33PM +0200, Matthias Andree via Fetchmail-users wrote:
>The 6.6.0.rc1 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
>including <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/>.
>
>Please test this especially if
>+ you want to try TLS or STARTTLS connection to your SMTP forwarder
>+ you use SMTP AUTH (esmtppassword)
>+ and/or want to store your SMTP passwords in .netrc
>and share feedback mentioning the 6.6.0.rc1 version via list,
>by e-mail or, if you find a bug, Gitlab issue (account required) at
>https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/issues -
>note for bug reports that AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN data must be redacted
>from your reports, these can be reversed to reveal your password!
>
>Reminder: only subscribers to the fetchmail mailing lists can send mail there.
>
>The source archive is available at:
><https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6.6.0.rc1.tar.xz/download>
>
>The detached GnuPG signature is available at:
><https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6.6.0.rc1.tar.xz.asc/download>
>
>The SHA256 hashes for the tarballs are:
>SHA2-256(fetchmail-6.6.0.rc1.tar.xz)= f1a2cec31f673fd3cdcdca50ff0608321f168e9513c355fedd061a9f76928f5f
>
>
>Here are the release notes:
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>fetchmail-6.6.0 (not yet released):
>
>## FEATURE:
>* SMTP TLS and STARTTLS support. By default, this works opportunistically,
>  attempting to set up a TLS connection to the smtphost if it understands EHLO
>  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=... 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 giving,
>  say /25 or /smtp for /starttls.
>
>## TRANSLATIONS:
>These will be requested only after fetchmail 6.5.7 will have been released.
>
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