fetchmail
SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
Binary packages in testing
| Architecture | Version | Section | Installed size |
|---|---|---|---|
| amd64 | 6.6.9-1 | 2,106 kB | |
| arm64 | 6.6.9-1 | 2,098 kB | |
| armhf | 6.6.9-1 | 2,033 kB | |
| i386 | 6.6.9-1 | 2,145 kB | |
| loong64 | 6.6.9-1 | 2,162 kB | |
| ppc64el | 6.6.9-1 | 2,226 kB | |
| riscv64 | 6.6.9-1 | 2,058 kB | |
| s390x | 6.6.9-1 | 2,118 kB |
Description
SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
Dependencies amd64
- Depends
- libc6 (>= 2.43), libcom-err2 (>= 1.43.9), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.13~alpha1+dfsg), libssl3t64 (>= 3.0.0), systemd | systemd-standalone-sysusers | systemd-sysusers
- Recommends
- ca-certificates
- Suggests
- fetchmailconf, default-mta | mail-transport-agent, resolvconf
Source package
- Name
- fetchmail
- Version
- 6.6.9-1
- Maintainer
- Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
- Homepage
- https://www.fetchmail.info
Bugs (51 open)
Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.
- #1143801 important fetchmail: io error on downloading large message on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potortì reported updated
- #1134865 important fetchmail: The new systemd service constantly dies on bugs.debian.org pending by Gábor Gombás reported updated
- #1133962 important SysV service '/etc/init.d/fetchmail' lacks a native systemd unit file on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #1129469 important fails to upgrade when service was disabled on bugs.debian.org pending by Eduard Bloch reported updated
- #1129413 important fetchmail cannot be upgaded: dpkg: error processing archive on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Hatzold reported updated
- #1117136 important fetchmail: CVE-2025-61962: SMTP AUTH crash depending on server on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthias Andree reported updated fixed-upstreamsecurityupstream
- #860549 important fetchmail: /etc/fetchmailrc not found on bugs.debian.org pending by Santi Moreno reported updated
- #700266 important fetchmail: --sslfingerprint uses MD5 on bugs.debian.org pending by Jakub Wilk reported updated confirmedfixed-upstreamsecurityupstream
- #150137 important Fetchmail does not use smtphost on bounces on bugs.debian.org pending by Christian Kurz reported updated confirmedupstreamwontfix
- #1121659 normal fetchmail: Multiple bounce messages from exim4 because fetchmail did not delete bad email from POP3 account on bugs.debian.org pending by Kingsley G. Morse Jr. reported updated
- #1093711 normal fetchmail: stops downloading with socket error on malformed message on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potortì reported updated
- #1087765 normal fetchmail: Should not expect account entry in /etc/passwd only on bugs.debian.org pending by J. Pfennig reported updated
- #1080025 normal fetchmail: Return-Path hdrs w/out domain causes fetchmail to generate an RFC non-compliant envelope on bugs.debian.org pending by Manny reported updated upstream
- #1056651 normal fetchmail: Not possible to have ESMTPPASSWORD in .netrc on bugs.debian.org pending by Ticker Berkin reported updated confirmedupstream
- #1034866 normal fetchmail: Compile with SOCKS support? on bugs.debian.org pending by Petter Reinholdtsen reported updated
- #1033707 normal fetchmail: START_DAEMON setting is ignored on bugs.debian.org pending by Julian Gilbey reported updated
- #1029815 normal fetchmail: logfile option ignored since version 6.4.33-2 on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #1022773 normal [fetchmail] corruption of email with base64 encoding on bugs.debian.org pending by Bas Vermulst reported updated
- #974167 normal fetchmail: OpenSSL reported error: key too small on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potortì reported updated
- #961412 normal fetchmail: restart silently fails, then start doesn't help on bugs.debian.org pending by Leszek Dubiel reported updated moreinfo
- #822346 normal [fetchmail] update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported on bugs.debian.org pending by Alexey Pikalev reported updated
- #800422 normal fetchmail doesn't seem to be able to write /var/tmp/messages als log on bugs.debian.org pending by Thomas Schmidt reported updated moreinfo
- #694048 normal systemd: Fetchmail restart failed on bugs.debian.org pending by Salvo Tomaselli reported updated moreinfo
- #597607 normal fetchmail -q should check if it will kill a fetchmail instance or something else on bugs.debian.org pending by Olivier Berger reported updated confirmedupstream
- #531589 normal fetchmail: --idle does not react well to an IP address change on bugs.debian.org pending by Frédéric Brière reported updated upstream
- #146306 normal fetchmail: bouncing leads to lost mails, too late in mailflow on bugs.debian.org pending by Jeff Sheinberg reported updated upstream
- #1050699 minor fetchmail: cron.service complains about unclean termination on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potortì reported updated
- #1025252 minor fetchmail: man page for fetchmailrc misses arg after fastuidl on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potortì reported updated
- #925282 minor fetchmail: the message [This account is currently not available] is ambigious on bugs.debian.org pending by Graeme Vetterlein reported updated moreinfo
- #855318 minor fetchmail: sslcertck not listed among user options on bugs.debian.org pending by Francesco Potortì reported updated confirmedfixed-upstreamupstream
- #710318 minor fetchmail: fetchmail-mode.el buffer local comment-start on bugs.debian.org pending by Kevin Ryde reported updated
- #632479 minor fetchmail: accept -f and --pidfile option even when background running on bugs.debian.org pending by Samuel Thibault reported updated upstream
- #541440 minor fetchmail: Delivers partial messages on bugs.debian.org pending by Kurt Roeckx reported updated upstreamwontfix
- #502381 minor --idle should care about expunging. on bugs.debian.org pending by Trent W. Buck reported updated moreinfoupstream
- #475239 minor fetchmail: Decoding of character sets within headers on bugs.debian.org pending by Peter S Galbraith reported updated confirmedupstream
- #390861 minor fetchmail: Daemon Mode: Can't work with encrypted user private keys on bugs.debian.org pending by Stephan Seitz reported updated confirmedupstream
- #1076604 wishlist fetchmail: “configuration invalid, you normally need --ssl for port 995” ← probably incorrect msg on bugs.debian.org pending by Manny reported updated confirmedfixed-upstreamupstream
- #740373 wishlist fetchmail: Generated emails about authentication failure is missing message-id on bugs.debian.org pending by Petter Reinholdtsen reported updated upstreamwontfix
- #707934 wishlist fetchmail should not require permission to flag messages \Seen on bugs.debian.org pending by Roman Odaisky reported updated confirmedupstream
- #705291 wishlist fetchmail: redundant fetch when configured for more than one user on bugs.debian.org pending by Anonymous reported updated confirmedupstream
- #696538 wishlist fetchmail: the "interval" option should be a user option, not a server option on bugs.debian.org pending by Anonymous reported updated confirmedupstream
- #569794 wishlist fetchmail: please add possibility to keep old "sleeping/awakened" logging behaviour on bugs.debian.org pending by Andreas Hoenen reported updated upstreamwontfix
- #509952 wishlist fetchmail: Using idle option only checks the first mailbox. on bugs.debian.org pending by Kurt Roeckx reported updated confirmedupstream
- #483905 wishlist fetchmail: suggest fetchmail-mode.el under site-lisp dir on bugs.debian.org pending by Kevin Ryde reported updated
- #432618 wishlist document undocumented no * options on bugs.debian.org pending by Dan Jacobson reported updated confirmedupstream
- #416282 wishlist Fetchmail oversized-messages warning could say more on bugs.debian.org pending by Dan Jacobson reported updated confirmedupstream
- #345788 wishlist fetchmail should default to UIDL rather than LAST on bugs.debian.org pending by Loïc Minier reported updated upstream
- #307191 wishlist fetchmail should have an option to limit max # of msgs to keep on server on bugs.debian.org pending by Alexander Gattin reported updated upstream
- #178980 wishlist fetchmail-ssl: if modem hangs up, we might just get a header with no body on bugs.debian.org pending by Dan Jacobson reported updated upstream
- #134745 wishlist fetchmail-ssl: could show all criteria causing a "skip" on bugs.debian.org pending by Yann Dirson reported updated upstream
- #109933 wishlist fetchmail should not try to restart when in daemon mode if it would require rereading a password on bugs.debian.org pending by Daniel Jacobowitz reported updated upstream