[Users] Is a puzzlement

[bruce]

On Mon, 11 May 2020 06:49:11 -0000
Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 May 2020 14:09:35 -0400
> Henry Carmichael <henry.carmichael at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> > I would really like to know why claws suddenly decided to fail the
> > handshake, and if there is anything I can do to trim its talons so
> > it will calmly retrieve messages from yahoo mail.  
> 
> I tested connections to yahoo pop an smtp and connected ok. That is,
> no problem to connect.
> 
> I believe your problem is related to Server Name Identification
> (SNI), which is (apparently) a recent requirement for yahoo mail
> servers.
> 
> SNI support was added to Claws Mail in version 3.17.3, but you are
> using version 3.16.0, released 2½ years and 6 releases ago.
> 
> with regards
> 
> Paul
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hey paul thanx.  claws really need to put in an update sniffer.

the 3.17 update took care of that ssl/tls handshake problem.