Fetchmail with SSL?

Bill Christensen billc_lists at greenbuilder.com
Thu Feb 7 20:40:07 PST 2013


On 2/7/13 9:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2013, at 20:53, Bill Christensen wrote:
>
>> The most recent update of Fetchmail appears to have broken because my installation requires SSL, and the portfile explicitly states "--without-ssl".
>>
>> I've modified the portfile so that it says "--with-ssl", and ran a sudo port upgrade fetchmail command, but I'm not seeing any change. I'm still getting "SSL is not enabled at ssl" on startup.
> "sudo port upgrade fetchmail" will not rebuild fetchmail if MacPorts doesn't think it's outdated.
>
> Yes, the port says --without-ssl -- unless you select the +ssl variant, which sounds like what you want. Please revert the changes you made, then run:
>
> sudo port install fetchmail +ssl
>
>
>
Thanks.  That worked.

So when I run my normal monthly updates is there anything that I'll need 
to do to keep fetchmail at the +ssl variant?  'Cuz it didn't stay there 
this time.


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