How can I use fetchmail with SSL?
You’ll need to have the OpenSSL libraries installed. Configure with –with-ssl. If you have the OpenSSL libraries installed in the default location (/usr/local/ssl) ths will suffice. If you have them installed in a non-default location, you’ll need to specify it as an argument to –with-ssl after an equal sign. Note that there is a known bug in the implementation of SSL_peek under OpenSSL versions 0.9.5 and older that fetchmail occasionally tripped over, causing hangs. It is recommended that you install 0.9.6 or later. Fetchmail binaries built this way support ssl, sslkey, and sslcert options that control SSL encryption. You will need to have an SSL-enabled mailserver to use these options. See the manual page for details and some words of care on the limited security provided. If your open OpenSSL session dies with a message that complains “PRNG not seeded”, update or improve your operating system. This means that the OpenSSL library on your machine has been unable to locate a source o
