Re: [PATCH] Check for SSL methods availability

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
nandre <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It seems support for ssl methods is slowly being droped and is not
> built by default on openssl version 1.1.1.
> 
> getmail, however, is not checking if these methods are actualy
> available on the system before trying to use them if the config file
> says so.

Thanks for the patch; I'm going to do it slightly differently.  I've also
added this note to the documentation for this option:

  Note that this option exists only to help in connecting certain legacy,
  out-of-date, broken servers; most users should not specify this option at
  all.  Using this option without knowing what you are doing can reduce the
  effectiveness of your encrypted connection.

It'll be in the next version, to be released shortly.

Charles
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