This has been a recurring problem but recently has gotten worse. I know Spectrum is screwing around with their servers but it's becoming more difficult to connect to their mail.twc.com for POP3 mail. Connection is intermittent in that I can connect once and 5 minutes later it won't connect. Here's what I get most often.

08:04:19.986: --- 7 Nov 2026, 8:04:19.986 ---
08:04:19.986: Connect to 'mail.twc.com', timeout 15 seconds, flags 16842753.
08:04:21.006: [*] Setting SNI hostname to 'mail.twc.com'
08:04:36.047: [!] OpenSSL timed out during handshake.

I've been reading that they don't support TLS 1.3. Does Pegasus use TLS 3.1 to connect? Can it be forced to connect with TLS 1.2 which Spectrum supports?

Any other suggestions?

It looks like this answers my question. Looks like TLS 1.2 is being used.

Here's a more recent successful attempt 14 minutes from the first failure:

08:16:07.640: --- 7 Nov 2026, 8:16:07.640 ---
08:16:07.655: Connect to 'mail.twc.com', timeout 15 seconds, flags 16842753.
08:16:08.901: [] Setting SNI hostname to 'mail.twc.com'
08:16:09.041: [] SSL/TLS session established
08:16:09.041: [] AES256-SHA256, TLSv1.2, Kx=RSA, Au=RSA, Enc=AES(256), Mac=SHA256<lf>
08:16:09.041: [] Peer's certificate name is '/C=US/ST=Missouri/L=St. Louis/O=Charter Communications Operating, LLC/CN=pkvw-mx.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net'.
08:16:09.062: >> +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.<cr><lf>
08:16:09.062: << USER xxxxxxxx@rochester.rr.com<cr><lf>
08:16:09.136: >> +OK please send PASS command<cr><lf>
08:16:09.136: << PASS xxxxxxxx<cr><lf>
08:16:09.199: >> +OK xxxxxxxx@rochester.rr.com is welcome here<cr><lf>
08:16:09.204: << STAT<cr><lf>
08:16:09.264: >> +OK 1 103002<cr><lf>
08:16:09.264: << LIST<cr><lf>
08:16:09.328: >> +OK 1 messages<cr><lf>
08:16:09.328: >> 1 103002<cr><lf>
08:16:09.328: >> .<cr><lf>
08:16:09.328: << RETR 1<cr><lf>
08:16:09.399: >> +OK 103002 octets<cr><lf>
08:16:09.662: << DELE 1<cr><lf>
08:16:09.728: >> +OK<cr><lf>
(… Mail was successfully retrieved)
08:16:09.728: << QUIT<cr><lf>
08:16:09.805: >> +OK xxxxxxxx@rochester.rr.com InterMail POP3 server signing off.<cr><lf>
08:16:09.821: [*] OpenSSL secure session normally terminated.
08:16:09.821: --- Connection closed at 7 Nov 2026, 8:16:09.821. ---
08:16:09.821: