Re: [fetchmail-devel] Fetchmail 6.3.8: "Invalid SSL protocol..." Error

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Stefano wrote:

> I recently installed Fetchmail (6.3.8) to collect my mail from various  
> accounts, so that they could be automatically filtered and sorted. Since 
> installation, I had been getting the following error whenever it polled 
> my ISP's server (POP3):
>
> Invalid SSL protocol '' specified, using default (SSLv23).
>
> This does not happen when accessing other IMAP servers, but they don't  
> support IMAP.  Given that I had added a cron job to check the accounts  
> periodically, I kept receiving messages from the cron daemon with these  
> errors; rather irritating.  Thus began my quest to track down and  
> silence the error.

Well, try the attached patch and see if it helps, it's actually simpler.

If the NEWS or TODO.txt parts of the patch fail, nevermind.

> I had read about this problem while trying to solve it, but it didn't  
> seem to have been fixed in the latest development code, so I took a stab  
> at it.

It should be fixed in the SVN repository though,

http://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_6-3/

(That's where my patch comes from.)

If not, we'll check again how to fix this.

Thanks a lot for your report and patch!

-- 
Matthias Andree