[Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail 6.4.1 not connecting to "mail.twc.com" using sslproto 'auto'

[Jerry <je...@se...>]

The old version of Fetchmail would connect and collect mail from my TWC
mail account just fine. The new version is failing with this error
message:

fetchmail: timeout after 30 seconds waiting for server mail.twc.com.            
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from US...@nc...@mail.twc.com                                                                               
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)

I tried connecting using 'openssl' successfully. This is the start of
the connection:

~ $ openssl s_client -crlf -connect mail.twc.com:993 -tls1_2
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=2 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
verify return:1
depth=1 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = Missouri, L = Saint Louis, O = "Charter Communications Operating, LLC", CN = mail.twc.com
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:C = US, ST = Missouri, L = Saint Louis, O = "Charter Communications Operating, LLC", CN = mail.twc.com
   i:C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
 1 s:C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
   i:C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
 2 s:C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
   i:C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert Global Root CA
---
Server certificate
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=C = US, ST = Missouri, L = Saint Louis, O = "Charter Communications Operating, LLC", CN = mail.twc.com

issuer=C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA

---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 5447 bytes and written 533 bytes
Verification: OK
---
New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is AES256-GCM-SHA384
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : AES256-GCM-SHA384
    Session-ID: 49970E5A87E7B161EFDC9723E2FCB7ACB1FA12D10C7C460BAA09E7FDCDB33A86
    Session-ID-ctx:
    Master-Key: 2E67C0F1B6DD033D09DAE9C6E36C360C49CF7C42A62E52C762526ED7DD1A78DE88851795DA82A744496E18E70A5B6625
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    SRP username: None
    TLS session ticket lifetime hint: 300 (seconds)
    TLS session ticket:
    0000 - 87 4e 5a e4 98 60 4f 78-38 38 75 08 3a ea 0e 70   .NZ..`Ox88u.:..p
    0010 - 1d 04 69 98 08 65 33 9e-10 74 58 3a 42 74 e8 16   ..i..e3..tX:Bt..
    0020 - 18 e6 9c 88 2b 00 7e a2-e0 93 9d bf 82 a6 54 a6   ....+.~.......T.
    0030 - 8a 6f 3e a7 19 68 bd 93-aa e7 0d 2a 61 6c 05 cb   .o>..h.....*al..
    0040 - b6 65 0a e4 03 78 95 17-11 db dd 9a d6 b8 ea 73   .e...x.........s
    0050 - 31 a5 63 14 d4 d4 0a 4f-28 4f 7c 76 35 e7 17 a9   1.c....O(O|v5...
    0060 - 84 a8 2e 43 c2 bf f0 ff-85 79 a3 76 f8 5e c8 f3   ...C.....y.v.^..
    0070 - af e7 04 f5 b7 d4 1f b3-e4 46 4a 30 8d 72 6a 16   .........FJ0.rj.
    0080 - db 7d 9b 45 87 db e3 8a-17 55 6d c1 35 70 b7 74   .}.E.....Um.5p.t
    0090 - f7 35 a0 dc 9a 4d 90 77-50 e2 98 c5 61 75 bc 7a   .5...M.wP...au.z
    00a0 - d9 e8 89 c9 ad 42 f9 97-48 80 ff 28 c1 a1 15 44   .....B..H..(...D

    Start Time: 1569760454
    Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
    Extended master secret: no
---
* OK IMAP4 server (InterMail vM.8.04.03.24.04 201-2389-100-175-1-20180501) ready Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:34:14 +0000 (UTC)

I had no settings for SSL or sslproto in the older fetchmail config
file. I added this: ssl sslproto auto

I still cannot make a connection. I then changed it to this: ssl
sslproto tlsv1.2

Apparently, the sslproto 'auto' setting is not working. Perhaps it is a
bug or else I am doing something wrong.

-- 
Jerry