Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #1947846] Re: fencepost complains about the SSLv3

[Nala Ginrut]

I downgraded python in my system to make it work. However, think it should
be solved in the server side.

Best regards.


On Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 04:52 Andrew Engelbrecht via RT <sysadmin@gnu.org>
wrote:

> On Mon Jun 05 08:51:32 2023, nalaginrut@gmail.com wrote:
> > Well, it seems the issue of Python3.10.
> > I made it work after retreating to Python2.7.
> > BTW, I'm using getmail6
> >
> > ...
> >
> > SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:mulei@fencepost.gnu.org:995:
> > getmailrc: socket error ([SSL: SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE] sslv3 alert
> > handshake failure (_ssl.c:997))
>
> It sounds like you may have configured getmail to use SSLv3, but Python
> 3.10 may not support that old protocol.
>
> When I run your command s_client command:
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> openssl s_client -connect fencepost.gnu.org:995
>
> I see:
>
> ...
> New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is AES256-GCM-SHA384
> ...
>
> So newer TLS profiles should be supported by the server. Let me know if it
> still doesn't work for you.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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