From ae127636aba9afc7f1f8c2dd97770fb552d535c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:21:38 +0000 Subject: 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 --- fetchmail.man | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 3dfd1b40..4d39c185 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3