Hi,
Just wanted to report my rather nightmarish experience with this today.
I've just bought a new laptop, so I created a full backup of The Bat! from my desktop machine (14 GB... with The Bat! messages going back to the 1990s...), and transferred it over to the new laptop.
Well, more or less everything* went smoothly despite the huge backup file size... except for this handshake failure! I use 4 various Gmail accounts (regular public account + a school account + 2 business accounts), and none of them were able to connect to the server.
The solution was very easy (but difficult to find, until I managed to google this forum thread!), so I wanted to thank whoever first posted it here first. All I had to do was to modify the link target so that it now is:
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"C:\Program Files\The Bat!\thebat64.exe" /TLS_DISABLE_PERFECT_FORWARD_SECRECY |
It looks very weird, but works perfectly. I have nothing like that on my main desktop machine, yet I get no TLS handshake failures there. I suppose that's because I set up my current desktop machine 3 years ago or so?
* "more or less", because the full The Bat! backup still isn't totally full, you know... That's been a weakness of The Bat! backups for decades, I dare say. Specifically: none of my editor preferences, header layout preferences, etc., got transferred from the desktop to the laptop, and I had to set up everything in those areas from scratch on the laptop. I really believe that absolutely
all preferences and customized user settings should be included in the full backup file, if that's what the user wishes to create...