John Reese wrote: > Morning. I've been running into an error message pertaining to SSL > that I don't understand, and I was hoping someone had some insight. > Gmail provides POP access over SSL on port 587, so I tried to use > poplib.POP_SSL, with the following results: [...] > socket.sslerror: (1, 'error:140770FC:SSL > routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol') > > > Any suggestions or insight?
It appears that pop.gmail.com *doesn't* provide SSL on port 587. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/doc$ telnet pop.gmail.com 587 Trying 64.233.185.111... Connected to pop.gmail.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP 13sm5173422wrl This rather looks like an unencrypted SMTP connection to me. Indeed, port 587 is the mail submission protocol. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
