From: "Simon Josefsson" <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Replace starttls.el with GNUTLS based version?
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:49:42 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39997.217.208.175.28.1070308182.squirrel@yxa.extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <q671xroju9a.fsf@panix.com>
>> The external program 'starttls' isn't widely available (e.g., not
>> packaged by Debian) and it uses OpenSSL, so I would like to replace
>> the current starttls.el with a (partially) backwards compatible
>> version that uses GNUTLS.
>
> I built 'starttls' from source on Cygwin/Windows XP and it works
> fine.
Ah, I don't recall hearing about success reports on Windows.
> However, if GNUTLS is more widely used, I'd rather rely on
> something less home-grown than 'starttls.'
Have you been able to try the new starttls.el? You need a fairly recent
gnutls-cli though (0.9.90 or later, better get the latest development
version). For IMAP, I believe it is safe, for SMTP I have been
experiencing some negotiation problems, but it works under the debugger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-01 2:31 Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01 17:57 ` Steven E. Harris
2003-12-01 19:49 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-12-01 20:16 ` Josh Huber
2003-12-01 21:17 ` Nevin Kapur
2003-12-01 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01 22:36 ` Nevin Kapur
2003-12-01 22:10 ` Steven E. Harris
2003-12-01 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-02 13:28 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-02 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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