Subject: security messages... help

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:42:00 -0700 (PDT)

I've gotten this message a few times recently (deleting white space):
There was an SSL/TLS failure for the server
                                mail.apple.com
The reason for the failure was
                            SSL negotiation failed
This is just an informational message. With the current setup, SSL/TLS will not
work. If this error re-occurs every time you run Pine, your current setup is
not compatible with the configuration of your mail server. You may want to add
the option
                                    /notls
to the name of the mail server you are attempting to access. In other words,
wherever you see the characters
                                mail.apple.com
in your configuration, replace those characters with
                             mail.apple.com/notls
Type RETURN to continue.

I don't see it every time, but I tried adding that to my configuration anyway,
and I still saw the message today (once so far).

i.e. my configuration is:
{mail.apple.com/notls/user=mattack}INBOX

Is this related to the
           [SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN]

message that I get *EVERY* time I try to go to a new folder?  I have asked
about this a few times, but never gotten an answer.  I have _NO_ idea what
this message means nor how I can configure pine (even if it involves
recompiling) to get past it.  It started several months ago.

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:50:22 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> this message means

It's benign (it's essentially a "You're sending your password across the
internet unencrypted, dude!" message), but it is *annoying*, and yeah, you
have to // it out to get rid of it.

	-Kenny

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