Re: [Fetchmail-users] Password length restriction

[Gene H. <ghe...@sh...>]

On Wednesday 15 July 2020 13:02:26 Eike Lantzsch wrote:

> On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 12:32:49 -04 Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Am 15.07.20 um 16:42 schrieb Zsolt Barat:
> > > I'm using following fetchmail version:
> > >
> > > 6.3.26+POP2+GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS+KRB5
> >
> > 6.3.X is a museum piece from 2013 and unsupported on this list, and
> > I don't care to look back to what it might have done for such
> > questions.
> >
> > Password buffers in 6.4.X are allocated dynamically, and there may
> > be undocumented limitations on your mail service provider's (MSP's)
> > end. 30 certainly does not seem too long to me, but might be for
> > your MSP.
> >
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> If you don't mind my AOL-post ...
> There are some distributions which are not including any recent
> fetchmail version.
> I really don't get it why e.g. openSuse comes with 6.3.26 fetchmail.
> If mayor producers of Linux Distros are going on with this practice
> questions like the one of the OP are bound to appear again and again.
> It seems to be a widely common assumption that the latest distro comes
> with the latest ports - not at all, not at all.
> Not good.
> Not long ago OpenBsd e.g. was still with 6.3.xx when 6.4.xx was
> already available upstream. Now OpenBSD 6.7 Release comes with 6.4.3.
> At least on OpenBSD compiling the latest upstream version fo fetchmail
> is straight forward and easy.
> On Linux I don't know but would be worth a try.

Piece of cake on stretch. SSL however has fallen way behind.  But the 
TLS/SSL I have on stretch is good enough for my providers server, which 
is running dovecot.

> Anyway, updating to the latest upstream version before asking for
> help, is always good practice.
>
> Anyway I admire your patience giving a helpful answer despite the OP's
> question based on outdated software.
> All the best to y'all
>
> --
> Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
> Asuncion / Paraguay
>
> I know what it feels like to be misunderstood. I know what it feels
> like to be misjudged because of prejudice. So, please would you stop
> to teach me that lesson?
> Or maybe by posting my 2 cents I asked for it ...
>
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