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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2005-11-17 23:21:38 +0000
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2005-11-17 23:21:38 +0000
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Document near the --ssl option that fetchmail may try TLS even if --ssl is not
enabled for the account, and point user to --sslproto. The --sslproto documen- tation tells the user how to defeat the automatic TLS negotiation. svn path=/trunk/; revision=4453
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@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@ Causes the connection to the mail server to be encrypted via SSL. Connect
to the server using the specified base protocol over a connection secured
by SSL. SSL support must be present at the server.
.sp
+Note that fetchmail may still try to negotiate TLS even if this option
+is not given. You can use the \-\-sslproto option to defeat this
+behavior or tell fetchmail to negotiate a particular SSL protol.
+.sp
If no port is specified, the connection is attempted to the well known
port of the SSL version of the base protocol. This is generally a
different port than the port used by the base protocol. For IMAP, this