[Fetchmail-users] ANNOUNCE: The 6.6.0.rc1 release of fetchmail is available (TLS/STARTTLS support for SMTP)

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

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:
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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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