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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