Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:10:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach <johannes-maria@t-online.de> Subject: Re: problems with email/ssl and t-online.de/telekom.de Message-ID: <25496.43914.bm@smtp114.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <20131120134653.GA4704@jmk.org>
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Hello,
> on 5 Nov I received an email from my provider telekom.de
> informing me that I use an insecure connection for my emails
> and that from start of 2014 on ssl is required.
> For my emails I use sendmail and getmail (and mutt/vi) so
> I think ssl should be supported.
> I changed the type from SimplePOP3Retriever to SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
> in my $HOME/.getmail/getmailrc:
| [retriever]
| type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
| server = popmail.t-online.de
| username = ...
| password = ...
> but with this I get only
| getmailrc: socket error ([Errno 61] Connection refused)
> I described this in a detailed email to telekom.de (twice)
> but didn't get any answer.
> Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong or explain
> to me what I should do instead.
> thanks in advance
> Johannes-Maria
Maybe you need to specify port=995 ?
I have used getmail, now use mostly mpop and msmtp, available in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc.
mpop and msmtp support secured connections.
Tom
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