Refer to FETCHMAIL_SSL_SECLEVEL.

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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -36,12 +36,16 @@ NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody once upon a time.
 
 The current maintainer does not have access to these systems, and assumes that
 the system is at least Single-Unix-Specification V3 compatible, and that
-will also require a C99 compiler.
+will also require a C99 compiler. A further requirement is that
+either realpath() permits its 2nd argument to be NULL for auto-allocation,
+or that otherwise PATH_MAX be defined.
 
 Fetchmail should be able to be compiled with C99, C11, C++98, C++03,
 C++11, C++14 compilers, but not C++17 because the "register" keyword is
 used in some parts of the code.
 
+Future fetchmail releases will require modern language features such as
+"long long" and others, so this release is the last to support C89.
 
 Further reading
 ---------------
@@ -53,20 +57,18 @@ detailed information on recent changes, NOTES for design notes, and TODO for
 a list of things that still need doing.  If you want to hack on this code, 
 a list of known bugs and to-do items can be found in the file todo.html.
 
-
 Status, source code
 -------------------
 
 The fetchmail code appears to be stable and free of bugs affecting normal 
 operation (that is, retrieving from POP3 or IMAP in single-drop mode and 
-forwarding via SMTP to a local MTA).
+forwarding via SMTP to a local mail transfer agent).
 
 You can get the code from the fetchmail home page:
 
-       http://www.fetchmail.info/
-       http://fetchmail.sourceforge.net/
+       https://www.fetchmail.info/
+       https://fetchmail.sourceforge.io/
 
 Enjoy!
 
                                                        -- esr, ma
-