Document near the --ssl option that fetchmail may try TLS even if --ssl is not

enabled for the account, and point user to --sslproto. The --sslproto documen-
tation tells the user how to defeat the automatic TLS negotiation.

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@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@ Causes the connection to the mail server to be encrypted via SSL.  Connect
 to the server using the specified base protocol over a connection secured
 by SSL.  SSL support must be present at the server.
 .sp
+Note that fetchmail may still try to negotiate TLS even if this option
+is not given. You can use the \-\-sslproto option to defeat this
+behavior or tell fetchmail to negotiate a particular SSL protol.
+.sp
 If no port is specified, the connection is attempted to the well known
 port of the SSL version of the base protocol.  This is generally a
 different port than the port used by the base protocol.  For IMAP, this