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 Use an up-to-date release of OpenSSL 1.0.1 or newer, so as to get
-TLSv1.2 support.
+TLSv1.2 support.  Older OpenSSL versions are unsupported upstream, and
+fetchmail rejects them.
 
 For use of SSL or TLS with in-band negotiation on the regular service's port, 
 i. e. with STLS or STARTTLS, use these command line options