From 30ac01d9f286d3f648eb1028064bcf4408371766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Barner <barner@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:51:45 +0000 Subject: Add instructions for mail/fetchmail users how to configure certificates in order to avoid verbose warnings that appeared with fetchmail 6.3.0. --- UPDATING | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPDATING') diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 0ba29ef61ba1..108266d85d48 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -6,6 +6,35 @@ You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20051210: + AFFECTS: users of mail/fetchmail using SSL encryption + AUTHOR: barner@FreeBSD.org + + Fetchmail now checks the validity of server certificates and complains + verbosely in maillog if the validation fails. + + If your mail server's certificate is not signed by one of the root + authorities, you have to manually configure them using the following steps: + + * Download the necessary certificates in PEM format and store them + at a suitable location, e.g. /home/user/.certs + + * Run the c_rehash tool on the freshly installed certificates: + + - If you are using OpenSSL from the base system (this is the default) + use the following command: + % perl /usr/src/crypto/openssl/tools/c_rehash /home/user/.certs + + - If you are using OpenSSL from security/openssl please use + % c_rehash /home/user/.certs + + * Use the following options to enable SSL encryption your .fetchmailrc + configuration file: + + options ssl sslcertpath /home/user/.certs sslcertck + sslfingerprint '< fingerprint >' + < other options > + 20051208: AFFECTS: users of net/py-bittorrent and net/py-bittorrent-core AUTHOR: lioux@FreeBSD.org -- cgit v1.2.3