Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1540 - fetchmail bug fix update

Synopsis

fetchmail bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated fetchmail package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections.

This updated package fixes the following bug:

• Previously, fetchmail would fail with a socket error when attempting to write to a BSMTP (Batch Simple Mail Transport Protocol) batch file when downloading mail. It failed with a socket error after writing the first header to the BSMTP batch file and displayed, "socket error while fetching from". As a result, fetchmail could not download mail using BSMTP. With this update to fetchmail, the fetchmail package will now correctly write to the BSMTP batch file. (BZ#620640)

All users of fetchmail are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5.i386.rpm
• fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5.ppc.rpm
• fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5.src.rpm
• fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
• fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5.ia64.rpm
• fetchmail-6.3.6-4.el5.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 620640

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.