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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 .\" Load www macros to process .URL requests, this requires groff:
 .mso www.tmac
 .\"
-.TH fetchmail 1 "fetchmail 6.3.19" "fetchmail" "fetchmail reference manual"
+.TH fetchmail 1 "fetchmail 6.3.25" "fetchmail" "fetchmail reference manual"
 
 .SH NAME
 fetchmail \- fetch mail from a POP, IMAP, ETRN, or ODMR-capable server
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ email if this happens.
 .IP
 Beginning with fetchmail 6.3.10, the SMTP client uses the recommended minimum
 timeouts from RFC-5321 while waiting for the SMTP/LMTP server it is talking to.
-You can raise the timeouts even more, but you cannot shorten it. This is to
+You can raise the timeouts even more, but you cannot shorten them. This is to
 avoid a painful situation where fetchmail has been configured with a short
 timeout (a minute or less), ships a long message (many MBytes) to the local
 MTA, which then takes longer than timeout to respond "OK", which it eventually
@@ -474,7 +474,8 @@ Also see \-\-sslcert above.
 (Keyword: sslproto)
 .br
 Forces an SSL/TLS protocol. Possible values are \fB''\fP,
-\&'\fBSSL2\fP', '\fBSSL23\fP', (use of these two values is discouraged
+\&'\fBSSL2\fP' (not supported on all systems),
+\&'\fBSSL23\fP', (use of these two values is discouraged
 and should only be used as a last resort) \&'\fBSSL3\fP', and
 \&'\fBTLS1\fP'.  The default behaviour if this option is unset is: for
 connections without \-\-ssl, use \&'\fBTLS1\fP' so that fetchmail will
@@ -1365,6 +1366,8 @@ The
 option turns off use of
 .BR syslog (3),
 assuming it's turned on in the \fI~/.fetchmailrc\fP file.
+This option is overridden, in certain situations, by \fB\-\-logfile\fP (which
+see).
 .PP
 The
 .B \-N
@@ -1376,8 +1379,7 @@ fetchmail runs as the child of a supervisor process such as
 .BR init (8)
 or Gerrit Pape's
 .BR runit (8).
-Note that this also causes the logfile option to be ignored (though
-perhaps it shouldn't).
+Note that this also causes the logfile option to be ignored.
 .PP
 Note that while running in daemon mode polling a POP2 or IMAP2bis server,
 transient errors (such as DNS failures or sendmail delivery refusals)
@@ -1701,13 +1703,16 @@ Keep permanently undeliverable mail as though a temporary error had
 occurred (default).
 T}
 set logfile  	\-L	\&	T{
-Name of a file to append error and status messages to.
+Name of a file to append error and status messages to.  Only effective
+in daemon mode and if fetchmail detaches.  If effective, overrides \fBset
+syslog\fP.
 T}
 set idfile  	\-i	\&	T{
 Name of the file to store UID lists in.
 T}
 set    syslog	\&	\&	T{
-Do error logging through syslog(3).
+Do error logging through syslog(3). May be overriden by \fBset
+logfile\fP.
 T}
 set no syslog  	\&	\&	T{
 Turn off error logging through syslog(3). (default)
@@ -2780,6 +2785,16 @@ then that name is used as the default local name.  Otherwise
 session ID (this elaborate logic is designed to handle the case of
 multiple names per userid gracefully).
 
+.IP \fBFETCHMAIL_DISABLE_CBC_IV_COUNTERMEASURE\fP
+(since v6.3.22):
+If this environment variable is set and not empty, fetchmail will disable
+a countermeasure against an SSL CBC IV attack (by setting 
+SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS).  This is a security risk, but may be
+necessary for connecting to certain non-standards-conforming servers.
+See fetchmail's NEWS file and fetchmail-SA-2012-01.txt for details.
+Earlier fetchmail versions (v6.3.21 and older) used to disable this 
+countermeasure, but v6.3.22 no longer does that as a safety precaution.
+
 .IP \fBFETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS\fP
 (since v6.3.17):
 If this environment variable is set and not empty, fetchmail will always load
@@ -2812,7 +2827,7 @@ it).
 Running \fBfetchmail\fP in foreground while a background fetchmail is
 running will do whichever of these is appropriate to wake it up.
 
-.SH BUGS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS
+.SH BUGS, LIMITATIONS, AND KNOWN PROBLEMS
 .PP
 Please check the \fBNEWS\fP file that shipped with fetchmail for more
 known bugs than those listed here.
@@ -2822,6 +2837,10 @@ character, for instance "demonstr@ti on". These are rather uncommon and
 only hurt when using UID-based \-\-keep setups, so the 6.3.X versions of
 fetchmail won't be fixed.
 .PP
+Fetchmail cannot handle configurations where you have multiple accounts
+that use the same server name and the same login. Any user@server
+combination must be unique.
+.PP
 The assumptions that the DNS and in particular the checkalias options
 make are not often sustainable. For instance, it has become uncommon for
 an MX server to be a POP3 or IMAP server at the same time. Therefore the