From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus and ESMTP
Date: 11 Jul 2000 07:53:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sntg3k0o.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "11 Jul 2000 11:02:24 +0200"
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
>
> > > ssl.el does not do STARTTLS.
> > >
> > > There is a STARTTLS implementation in elisp/C [1] by Daiki Ueno that work
> > > with IMAP, if you want I could make an attempt to make it work for SMTP
> > > too.
> >
> > Hrm - looks pretty cool. I'll have to see if we can merge ssl.el and that
> > together.
>
> It's my understanding that TLS supercedes SSL, so perhaps it's easiest
> just to make sure that starttls.el understands SSL too, and only use
> starttls.el. It's not unlikely that starttls.c already does support SSL,
> since it uses OpenSSL.
I mean that ssl.el provides a lot more than just SSL negotiation. It has
functions to get information about a certificate so it can be viewed by a
human, you can accept new CA certificates into the repository, etc.
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-11 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-06 22:47 Miroslav Zubcic
2000-07-07 1:16 ` Kevin Falcone
2000-07-07 8:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-07-07 10:48 ` Miroslav Zubcic
2000-07-07 11:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-07-07 12:33 ` David Kågedal
2000-07-07 8:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-07-07 11:09 ` Miroslav Zubcic
2000-07-07 11:59 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-07-07 17:32 ` Miroslav Zubcic
2000-07-07 13:41 ` William M. Perry
2000-07-09 10:49 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-07-09 14:48 ` William M. Perry
2000-07-11 9:02 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-07-11 11:17 ` Miroslav Zubcic
2000-07-11 12:53 ` William M. Perry [this message]
2000-07-11 11:06 ` Miroslav Zubcic
2000-10-07 18:34 Simon Josefsson
2004-05-16 22:13 Marcelo Toledo
2004-05-16 22:57 ` Jesper Harder
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=86sntg3k0o.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com \
--to=wmperry@aventail.com \
--cc=ding@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).