Re: [Fetchmail-users] help with gmx and starttls

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

Am 20.09.2014 um 16:34 schrieb Stefan Liebl:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just setting up my new server since my old one broke down. I'm stuck at 
> getting fetchmail to work. I'm getting the following messages in the logfile:
> 
> fetchmail[5376]: reading message xx...@gm...@pop.gmx.net:1 of 69 (3255 octets) 
> (log message incomplete)
> fetchmail[5376]: SMTP error: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

The problem is not the inbound path, but the outbound path ("SMTP").

Your MTA does not accept mail from localhost through an unencrypted
connection.  You might consider permitting non-TLS through the loopback
interface, if someone can sniff that, he can do anything else on your
computer as well.

Fetchmail does not currently support TLS-wrapped or STARTTLS on the SMTP
side.