BSD Ports

mail/fetchmail 6.6.9 FreeBSD

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

System
FreeBSD
Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
14d62b999b
License
GPLv2+
Categories
mail
Package size
549.5 KiB, 2288.8 KiB installed

Description

Fetchmail is a full-featured IMAP/POP2/POP3/APOP/KPOP/ETRN/ODMR client with easy configuration, daemon mode, forwarding via SMTP or local MDA, and superior reply handling. It is used to handle intermittent email connections by acting as a coupling that seamlessly batch forwards fetched mail from your mail server to your local delivery system, allowing you to read it with your favourite mail user agent. Fetchmail also includes useful spam filtering and multi-user functions.

A typical use of fetchmail is to connect to your ISP's POP3 server, downloading your mail into the INBOX on your local computer. You may then read the mail, offline if you want, using pine, mutt, or any standard mail user agent.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
FreeBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.9
OpenBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.9
NetBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.2
DragonFlymail/fetchmail6.5.4
MidnightBSDmail/fetchmail6.6.6

Install

Binary package:

pkg install fetchmail

From the ports tree:

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

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	fetchmail>0:mail/fetchmail

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repositoryaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest6.6.96.6.96.4.346.5.46.6.9
FreeBSD:14:quarterly6.6.96.6.9n/a6.5.46.6.9
FreeBSD:15:latest6.6.96.6.9n/a6.5.46.5.4
FreeBSD:15:quarterly6.6.96.6.9n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest6.6.86.6.9n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterlyn/an/an/an/an/a

Dependencies

The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 13
Run dependencies 2
Required by 1

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

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

Files

Manual pages 1
  • fetchmail(1)
pkg-plist 17
  • bin/fetchmail
  • share/man/man1/fetchmail.1.gz
  • share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/fetchmail.mo
  • @sample(fetchmail,fetchmail,600) etc/fetchmailrc.sample
  • @dir(fetchmail,fetchmail,755) /var/run/fetchmail
distinfo 1
FileSizeSHA256
fetchmail-6.6.9.tar.xz1.130908e+063dfc47192e76099b5614f2b2a42198cb41fa05d7ca9b5073e08c051e9be81435
Master sites 1
  • SF/fetchmail/branch_6.6/

Commit history 3

DateCommitCreditsLog message
14d62b999b Corey Halpin mail/fetchmail: Update 6.6.8 => 6.6.9
Release Notes: https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/blob/6.6.9/NEWS PR: 299096 Sponsored by: UNIS Labs (vvd, commit patch) MFH: 2026Q4
4aae96369d Corey Halpin mail/fetchmail{,conf}: Update 6.6.7 => 6.6.8
fetchmail 6.6.8 updates the NEWS file and the fetchmail-SA-2026-01 security announcement. There are no code changes since 6.6.7. Changelog: * Bugfix: The Serbian (sr) translation was not installed due to an oversight in the po/LINGUAS file. * Translation updates and new traditional Chinese <zh_TW>. https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/blob/6.6.8/NEWS#L113 PR: 298887 Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit) Security: CVE-2026-94184 (Fixed in 6.6.7) MFH: 2026Q3
b6a3a91f25 Corey Halpin mail/fetchmail{,conf}: Update 6.6.6 => 6.6.7
Changelog: https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/blob/6.6.7/NEWS#L113 PR: 298119 Reported by: Corey Halpin <[email protected]> (maintainer) Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit) MFH: 2026Q3