Refer to FETCHMAIL_SSL_SECLEVEL.

[~andy/fetchmail] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index dadc05383f290b02371f64281d5ae2ecf0f33fbc..22e5cd103a9587f9eaf37b8731c672a61c2a76c3 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ Internet's SDPS, or CRAM-MD5 authentication a la RFC2195.
 
 Fetchmail supports end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL, do read README.SSL for 
 details on fetchmail's configuration and README.SSL-SERVER for server-side 
-requirements.  NOTE! To be compatible with earlier releases, fetchmail 6.3's 
-default behaviour is more relaxed than dictated by the standard - add options 
-such as --sslcertck to tighten certificate checking.
+requirements.  NOTE! To be compatible with earlier releases, fetchmail 6.4
+default behaviour is more relaxed than dictated by recommendations - while it
+does away with SSLv2, only negotiates SSLv3 if forced to, it will by default
+still negotiate TLS v1.0.
 
 Portability
 -----------
@@ -33,19 +34,19 @@ The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been extensively
 tested under the BSD variants, AIX, HP-UX versions 9 and 10, SunOS, Solaris, 
 NEXTSTEP, OSF 3.2, IRIX, and Rhapsody once upon a time.
 
-The maintainer no longer has acess to these systems, and assumes that
-the system is at least Single-Unix-Specification V2 compatible, yet will
-permit a C89 compiler. It currently ships with a copy of the trio library
-for systems that lack snprintf().
+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. 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 C89, C99, C11, C++98, C++03,
+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
 ---------------
 
@@ -61,14 +62,13 @@ 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
-