Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail 6.3.6-rc4 release candidate

[Jakob H. <jh...@pl...>]

Quoting Matthias Andree:

> 1. You did not ask for SSL, but you did probably not prohibit TLS
> either, so fetchmail will - that's its default - look if it has the
> opportunity to use TLS.  Using 'sslproto ""' should defeat this CAPA
> probe. This goes along with <http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#K6>

Ok, I get that. Setting sslproto to an empty string prevents CAPA,
indeed. But that wasn't necessary in rc3 (and AFAIR, many versions
before). Not that it bothers me much, I just wonder why this changed.

> 3. Does fetchmail re-probe capabilities in daemon mode for the 2nd and
> subsequent polls? It shouldn't.

I don't know, I use cron.