Port details

mail/fetchmail 6.6.9

Batch mail retrieval utility for IMAP/POP3/ETRN/ODMR

unaddressed

VuXML only

fixed

open problem reports

Port info

Maintainer: chalpin@cs.wisc.edu
Packages: latest: 6.6.9
Upstream: up to date
Last update: 2026-10-03 to 6.6.9 · 14d62b999b
Quarterly: 2026Q4: 6.6.9 · last MFH 2026-10-03 48ef898280
Formerly: mail/fetchmail64 until 2019-09-28
WWW: https://www.fetchmail.info/
Links: cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package

# pkg install fetchmail

installs 6.6.9 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 6.6.9

Port

# cd /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail && make install clean

# make -C /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail config  # change options first

Size

544 KiB download · 2.2 MiB installed

Depends on

devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1

License

GPLv2+

Creates

user fetchmail, group fetchmail

Options

5 of 10 on in the package: DOCS GSSAPI_BASE NLS OPENSSL RPA

Show the 5 options that are off

GSSAPI_HEIMDAL GSSAPI_MIT GSSAPI_NONE OPIE WOLFSSL

pkg-message

Shown after installing

For pointers how to configure fetchmail in daemon mode
please consult /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD version	amd64	aarch64	i386
FreeBSD 16	6.6.9	6.6.9	–
FreeBSD 15	6.6.9	6.6.9	–
FreeBSD 14	6.6.9	6.6.9	6.6.9

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD version	amd64	aarch64	i386
FreeBSD 15	6.6.9	6.6.9	–
FreeBSD 14	6.6.9	6.6.9	6.6.9

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 6.6.9.

Fixed (23)

Show 23 fixed

VuXML entries whose affected range the packaged version has left.

Fetchmail -- NTLM potential remote code executionentered 2026-09-26

CVE-2026-94184

fetchmail -- potential crash when authenticating to SMTP serverentered 2025-10-03

CVE-2025-61962

fetchmail -- STARTTLS bypass vulnerabilitiesentered 2021-08-26

CVE-2021-39272

fetchmail -- 6.4.19 and older denial of service or information disclosureentered 2021-07-28

CVE-2008-2711, CVE-2021-36386

fetchmail -- chosen plaintext attack against SSL CBC initialization vectorsentered 2012-08-30

CVE-2011-3389

fetchmail -- two vulnerabilities in NTLM authenticationentered 2012-08-14

CVE-2012-3482

fetchmail -- STARTTLS denial of serviceentered 2011-06-06

CVE-2011-1947

fetchmail -- denial of service vulnerabilityentered 2010-04-20

CVE-2010-1167

fetchmail -- heap overflow on verbose X.509 displayentered 2010-02-12

CVE-2010-0562

fetchmail -- improper SSL certificate subject verificationentered 2009-08-11

CVE-2009-2666

fetchmail -- potential crash in -v -v verbose mode (revised patch)entered 2008-07-01

CVE-2008-2711

fetchmail -- potential crash in -v -v verbose modeentered 2008-06-20

CVE-2008-2711

fetchmail -- denial of service on reject of local warning messageentered 2007-09-02

CVE-2007-4565

fetchmail -- insecure APOP authenticationentered 2007-04-09

CVE-2007-1558

fetchmail -- crashes when refusing a message bound for an MDAentered 2007-01-06

CVE-2006-5974

fetchmail -- TLS enforcement problem/MITM attack/password exposureentered 2007-01-06

CVE-2006-5867

fetchmail -- crash when bouncing a messageentered 2006-01-23

CVE-2006-0321

fetchmail -- null pointer dereference in multidrop mode with headerless emailentered 2005-12-19

CVE-2005-4348

fetchmail -- fetchmailconf local password exposureentered 2005-10-30

CVE-2005-3088

fetchmail -- denial of service/crash from malicious POP3 serverentered 2005-07-22

no CVE referenced

fetchmail -- remote root/code injection from malicious POP3 serverentered 2005-07-20

CVE-2005-2335

fetchmail -- denial-of-service vulnerabilityentered 2004-02-25

CVE-2003-0792

fetchmail -- address parsing vulnerabilityentered 2003-10-25

no CVE referenced

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (376)

1998-08-17 02:11Steve Price (steve)

Update to version 4.5.5.

PR:		7631-diffs
Submitted by:	maintainer

ce559dbb49

1998-07-20 05:39Steve Price (steve)

Update to version 4.5.2

PR:		7315
Submitted by:	maintainer

9266d8d10f

1998-06-29 15:52Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.5.0

3ee33d40a2

1998-06-13 21:26Matthew Hunt (mph)

Upgrade to 4.4.9.  Add a wrapper around fetchmailconf that checks whether Python is installed, and emits a helpful message if it isn't.

PR:		6866
Submitted by:	Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi> (wrapper by mph)

1ab42dd5cf

1998-05-27 06:05Matthew Hunt (mph)

Update to 4.4.8.  Alter configure flags to include POP2 support.

PR:		6767
Submitted by:	Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com>

a5e6ff8a76

1998-05-24 05:15Steve Price (steve)

Upgrade to version 4.4.7.

PR:		6726
Submitted by:	maintainer

dce4f932e1

1998-05-22 03:34Matthew Hunt (mph)

Upgrade to 4.4.6.

PR:		6665
Submitted by:	Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com>
Reviewed by:	Ville Eerola <Ville.Eerola@vehome.pp.sci.fi> (maintainer)

0bf0a805ec

1998-05-14 04:27Matthew Hunt (mph)

Upgrade to 4.4.4.

PR:		6625
Submitted by:	Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi>

995f9ca479

1998-05-13 01:02Tim Vanderhoek (hoek)

Add the homepage.  Rephrase so it doesn't read like ad copy.

Homepage Submitted by:	Ville Eerola <ville@vlsi.fi>
[I take full blame for the rephrasal]

34950af940

1998-03-28 13:53Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.4.1

1e9ea447dc

1998-03-20 16:05Mark Murray (markm)

Clean up the KerberosIV workings

308a3e594e

1998-03-02 23:12Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.3.8

0b3fdb7ff1

1998-01-29 18:13Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.3.6

47be32d44a

1997-12-24 02:21Alexander Langer (alex)

No need to use += on first appearance of variables.

dab61dff14

1997-12-15 21:55Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 4.3.3 -> 4.3.5.

957f73a793

1997-11-29 15:22Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

People who want KerberosIV support might have MAKE_KERBEROS4 defined instead of MAKE_EBONES nowadays.

85e360c113

1997-11-29 15:17Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 4.3.2 -> 4.3.3.

0977f55c83

1997-10-28 05:40Satoshi Asami (asami)

Undo previous commit, "install" is fixed to accept -C and -d simultaneously.

6f0f6d4ed9

1997-10-27 01:08Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

${INSTALL} -> install because install -C -d fails

77b8aacecd

1997-10-26 03:47Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 4.3.1 -> 4.3.2.

c4c57fbe2c

1997-10-16 00:01Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 4.3.0 -> 4.3.1.

7904a8d00c

1997-10-07 13:58Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.3.0

3906922573

1997-10-07 13:57Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4..0

e35d2c03ca

1997-09-29 14:05Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Turn on opie support

2397af9ebb

1997-09-29 09:53Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.2.8

f83e6db1d3

1997-09-28 02:46Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino (itojun)

original distribution updated to 4.2.7. Reviewed by:	ve@sci.fi (maintainer) Submitted by:	itojun@itojun.org

33438f1d9c

1997-09-10 03:48Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.1.7

02078b6e79

1997-09-10 03:25Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Enable optional KPOP support PR: 4503 Reviewed by:  Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi> Submitted by: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu>

4490e899d3

1997-09-07 15:17Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.1.6

4c3cf13ccb

1997-09-06 08:31Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Add @dirrm to remove the doc directory.

cc911a6d32

1997-09-06 08:28Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 4.1.1 -> 4.1.5.

b8a98e4240

1997-08-20 06:06Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.1.1

816a1dac21

1997-08-06 01:27Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.0.6

5e4d730c30

1997-07-10 03:22Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 4.0.0

514ad06040

1997-07-02 15:06Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 3.9.9 PR: 4005 Submitted by: Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi>

9e1e8dcb6f

1997-06-16 17:51Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.9.7 -> 3.9.8.

6fbb3b1d76

1997-06-11 04:38Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Use md5.h header correctly

f0b4718638

1997-06-10 01:49Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.9.6 -> 3.9.7.

42da4c6491

1997-05-30 09:30Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.9.5 -> 3.9.6.

685939dd9f

1997-05-20 05:49Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.9.4 -> 3.9.5.

8441f5a365

1997-05-15 11:13Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.9.3 -> 3.9.4.

58f12e766c

1997-05-09 12:43Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 3.9.3 PR: 3550

c10cdb0be9

1997-04-24 18:23Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 3.9.2

ad26d78ae6

1997-04-19 03:39Andrey A. Chernov (ache)

Upgrade to 3.9.1

56f7aab3f2

1997-04-04 04:55Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.8 -> 3.9.

5006b5c68b

1997-03-25 09:21Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.6 -> 3.8.

Reminded by:	Josh Gilliam <soil@quick.net>
(Closing PR #2967.)

4863f84869

1997-02-21 10:04Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.4 -> 3.6.

4ce0ae51df

1997-02-13 23:05Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.3.2 -> 3.4.

3cbe5c067a

1997-02-04 04:33Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2. (Well, if you compile, it looks like it's 3.3.1, but the release note says it's 3.3.2.)

c93f55ae25

1997-02-02 09:25Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)

Upgrade, 3.3 -> 3.3.1.

9f1c033519

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