problems with email/ssl and t-online.de/telekom.de

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:46:53PM +0100, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> 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 = ...

Maybe you should use securepop.t-online.de, if I read the following URI
correctly:
http://hilfe.telekom.de/hsp/cms/content/HSP/de/3378/FAQ/theme-45858870/Internet/theme-45858718/Dienste/theme-45858716/E-Mail/theme-554628917/E-Mail-made-in-Germany/faq-554684420

Roland
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