Be advised that Eric S. Raymond has just released fetchmail 5.8.17 which contains a "SECURITY" bugfix: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/NEWS fetchmail-5.8.17 (Tue Aug 7 20:05:36 EDT 2001), 21056 lines: * SECURITY FIX: Fixed a security hole that is exploitable if fetchmail is running as root and the attacker can either subvert the mailserver or redirect to a fake one using DNS spoofing. Bugtraq announcement to follow soon. Thanks to Salvatore Sanfilippo . ... Does the bug bite SuSE fetchml packages as well? If so, an update might be advised.