Re: [fetchmail-users] Secure SMTP support?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 03.04.2014 23:29, schrieb Grant Edwards:
> 
> The last time I tried to set up fetchmail, it seemed to support
> SSL-wrapped IMAP and POP3 but not SMTP.
> 
> Is that still the case?
> 
> Why support SSL-wrapped IMAP and POP but not SMTP?
> 
> I would think the infrastructure required to support IMAP/POP over SSL
> would work just as well for supporting SMTP over SSL.  In all cases
> you're just connecting to a server using SSL and then running the
> exact same protocol on top of the SSL connection -- right?

This would require some more code, especially for STARTTLS support, that
have not been written yet.  But you're right, the infrastructure is there.

The code has not yet been written because the assumption was that
fetchmail would predominantly be used on the same computer as your SMTP
server software, through "localhost" (which is the default), and it has
been consequently assumed that that connection is trusted.