[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#390861: fetchmail: Daemon Mode: Can't work with encrypted user private keys

[Stephan Seitz]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.4-6
Severity: normal

I need to give a client certificate to my server. If my private key is 
encrypted fetchmail only asks for my password at the server but not for 
my private key passphrase. The log file says:
	Enter PEM pass phrase:
but fetchmail is already in the background. The man page says for sslkey 
"This can cause some complications in daemon mode.”, but in which 
situations will this work in daemon mode? I never found one.

I would prefer a fix of fetchmail to ask for all passwords before going 
into background, or at least the man page should be updated to say, that 
this will never work.

Shade and sweet water!

	Stephan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.97        Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                  2.17        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext                      0.14.6-1    GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8c-1    SSL shared libraries

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20060816   Common CA Certificates PEM files

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