Evolution Useless After Mail Provider Disables SSLv3

[joncr]

My mail provider (Fastmail) has disable SSLv3 in response to Poodle. Now, Evolution isn't happy, producing this:

Could not connect to 'mail.messagingengine.com:993': Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).".

I'm on a new and updated install, with the updated openssl package per the wiki.

Is this going to be addressed? Is there a workaround?

[TrevorH]

If all else fails then you can stick stunnel on your local machine and connect to localhost and have stunnel do the TLS stuff for you. I'm not a user of Evolution so have no idea how you might otherwise address this.

[gerald_clark]

What wiki article?

[joncr]

What wiki article?

Well, now I can't find it. Basically, it says to upgrade to: openssl-1.0.1e-34.el7_0.6.x86_64.

That doesn't work for Fastmail, presumably because they've simply disabled SSLv3 and don't support STARTTLS.

There is this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153723 which suggests a patch is available for RHEL7.

[TrevorH]

That bugzilla is in status ON_QA which means the fix is not yet released.

[joncr]

That bugzilla is in status ON_QA which means the fix is not yet released.

Thanks. Hope upstream pushes a patched version out at some point.