Re: TLS failure with getmail-5.15

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 06:10:00PM -0400, 明道 何 wrote:
> Could someone just give me a URI to read how to enable TLS for getmail-5.15?  
> 
> mingdao@shuttle ~ $ /usr/bin/getmail -rBruce-techfixrc -rHPC-Brucerc
> Bruce-techfixrc: operation error (POP error (-ERR Your mailbox cannot be accessed. Please activate TLS in your mail program.))
> HPC-Brucerc: operation error (POP error (-ERR Your mailbox cannot be accessed. Please activate TLS in your mail program.))
>  
> IONOS emailed that "unencrypted access and the use of the outdated TLS 1.0 and 1.1 encryption protocols to our email servers will no longer be possible on August 9, 2022".
> 
> I added under the [retriever] section:
> ssl_version = tlsv1_2
> 
> The new output from /usr/bin/getmail -rmingdao-TechFixrc
> Warning: ignoring unknown parameter "ssl_version" (value: tlsv1_2)
> mingdao-TechFixrc: operation error (POP error (-ERR Your mailbox cannot be accessed. Please activate TLS in your mail program.))

I fixed it by adding this:
ssl_version = tlsv1_2
and changing SimplePOP3Retriever to SimplePOP3SSLRetriever

Also had to add "tls_starttls off" to ~/.msmtprc to send over port 465.
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