Nnimap and gnutls

Nnimap and gnutls

[Frank Schmitt]

Hello

After my problems with nnimap-stream ssh, Simon adived me to try
gnutls, so I installed it and changed the value of nnimap-stream to tls,
but this fails with the following messages in nnimap buffer:

Connecting to '209.70.202.39:993'...
*** Handshake has failed
GNUTLS ERROR: ASN1 parser: Element was not found.

I tried to set nnimap-debug to t to get some more info, but this didn't
have any effect (there's no *nnimap-debug* buffer created)

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Re: Nnimap and gnutls

[Simon Josefsson]

> Connecting to '209.70.202.39:993'...
> *** Handshake has failed
> GNUTLS ERROR: ASN1 parser: Element was not found.

This looks like a GNUTLS problem.  Can you connect to the server on the
command line using the gnutls-cli command?  Try running the
gnutls-cli-debug against the server too, maybe it outputs some useful
information.

I have noticed some servers that GNUTLS didn't like, but imap.el contain a
workaround for those. Perhaps there are more workarounds that need to be
activated.  In any case, the GNUTLS people should know more.