# Patches fetchmail's behaviour for SMTP servers which insist # on using TLS - we do not want messages which cannot be # sent due to server negotiation problems lost - rather we # keep them on the mailserver. As users should realize rather # quickly that something went wrong, the overhead shouldn't # be considered that important. --- fetchmail-6.3.8.orig/sink.c 2007-03-30 00:45:17.000000000 +0200 +++ fetchmail-6.3.8.new/sink.c 2007-09-25 17:37:49.332165910 +0200 @@ -535,7 +535,19 @@ free(responses[0]); return(PS_REFUSED); - default: + case 530: /* must issue STARTTLS error */ + /* + * Some SMTP servers insist on encrypted communication + * Let's set PS_TRANSIENT, otherwise all messages to be sent + * over such server would be blackholed + */ + free(responses[0]); + if (outlevel > O_SILENT) + report_complete(stdout, + GT_(" SMTP server requires STARTTLS, keeping message.\n")); + return(PS_TRANSIENT); + + default: /* bounce non-transient errors back to the sender */ if (smtperr >= 500 && smtperr <= 599) {