Re: My latest attempts

Barry L. Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forgive me. I have not had time to do anything more as of yet.
[...]
> I do SO WANT to have getmail (or something else) working!

I would normally not guess at what your problem is, but I am making an
exception in your case.  You have enough on your plate as it is.

I strongly suspect that you have configured getmail to use one of the
retriever types that does *not* expect a TLS-wrapped connection - i.e.
SimplePOP3Retriever, SimpleIMAPRetriever, etc.

Merely pointing those to the port that your mail provider gave you will not
fix the problem, if that is it.  Given that "Jay" gave you ports corresponding
to POP3-over-TLS and IMAP-over-TLS, I'm 99% sure he means you need to use
those with software that establishes a TLS connection before proceeding with
the POP or IMAP login.

If that's the case, then changing the `type` parameter to
"SimplePOP3SSLRetriever" or "SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever", and removing the `port`
config item you added, should fix the problem.

Charles
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