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

[Thomas Mueller]

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