diff --git a/mail/fetchmail/Makefile b/mail/fetchmail/Makefile
index be8e69169d4..90b664708b1 100644
--- a/mail/fetchmail/Makefile
+++ b/mail/fetchmail/Makefile
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-# OpenBSD makefile for:	fetchmail
-# Version required:     4.7.7
-# Date created:		10 Nov 1997
-# Whom:			ejovi
-#
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.9 1999/02/10 05:03:37 fgsch Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 1999/02/23 03:33:25 fgsch Exp $
 #
 
-DISTNAME=       fetchmail-4.7.7
+DISTNAME=       fetchmail-4.7.8
 CATEGORIES=	mail
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail/
 
diff --git a/mail/fetchmail/files/md5 b/mail/fetchmail/files/md5
index 0c03adb0878..f623a5bc3f7 100644
--- a/mail/fetchmail/files/md5
+++ b/mail/fetchmail/files/md5
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (fetchmail-4.7.7.tar.gz) = 915b74d5959b890feb71ce6a6af4e9b4
+MD5 (fetchmail-4.7.8.tar.gz) = 9ff1c2f639902bbfe03c2b9fd05f0305