diff -Naur fetchmail-5.9.14.orig/options.c fetchmail-5.9.14/options.c
--- fetchmail-5.9.14.orig/options.c	Wed Sep  4 19:40:43 2002
+++ fetchmail-5.9.14/options.c	Fri Sep  6 18:35:08 2002
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@
 	    break;
 
 	case LA_SSLCERTPATH:
-	    ctl->sslcertpath = xstrdup(optarg);
+	    ctl->sslcertpath = prependdir(optarg, currentwd);
 	    break;
 
 	case LA_SSLFINGERPRINT:
diff -Naur fetchmail-5.9.14.orig/rcfile_y.y fetchmail-5.9.14/rcfile_y.y
--- fetchmail-5.9.14.orig/rcfile_y.y	Wed Sep  4 19:40:43 2002
+++ fetchmail-5.9.14/rcfile_y.y	Fri Sep  6 18:35:08 2002
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@
 		| SSLCERT STRING	{current.sslcert = prependdir ($2, rcfiledir);}
 		| SSLPROTO STRING	{current.sslproto = xstrdup($2);}
 		| SSLCERTCK             {current.sslcertck = FLAG_TRUE;}
-		| SSLCERTPATH STRING    {current.sslcertpath = xstrdup($2);}
+		| SSLCERTPATH STRING    {current.sslcertpath = prependdir($2, rcfiledir);}
 		| SSLFINGERPRINT STRING {current.sslfingerprint = xstrdup($2);}
 
 		| NO KEEP		{current.keep        = FLAG_FALSE;}
@@ -579,6 +579,7 @@
     char *newfile;
     if (!file[0] ||			/* null path */
 	file[0] == '/' ||		/* absolute path */
+	strcmp(file, "-") == 0 ||	/* stdin/stdout */
 	!dir[0])			/* we don't HAVE_GETCWD */
 	return xstrdup (file);
     newfile = xmalloc (strlen (dir) + 1 + strlen (file) + 1);