Re: nnimap fails with TLS error when trying to open a davmail server

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

> Hm... telling gnutls-cli to use starttls actually seems to work, so why
> does nnimap (with linked-in gnutls.so) fail...?

>  sb@edwards:~$ gnutls-cli -V -s -p 1143 localhost
>  Resolving 'localhost'...
>  Connecting to '::1:1143'...

>  - Simple Client Mode:

>  - Received[87]: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 AUTH=LOGIN MOVE] IMAP4rev1 DavMail 4.3.1-2134 server ready

The error message from gnus with (nnimap-stream starttls) was:
 Opening connection to localhost...
 Unable to open server nnimap+davmail due to: Buffer  *nnimap localhost 1143  *nntpd**-720412 has no process

So I googled that error message instead, specifically:
 Unable to open server nnimap+davmail due to
and found this article:
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15365
 nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15365

I changed the server definition to:
 (nnimap "davmail"
         (nnimap-server-port 1143)
         (nnimap-address "localhost")
         (nnimap-stream network))

(ie. "(nnimap-stream network)" instead of "(nnimap-stream starttls)")
and then the server opened and I could see the groups on that server.

I subscribed three groups, but when trying to enter them, I got
 gnus-select-newsgroup: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, OK

I started a new emacs, ran
 (setq debug-on-error t)
and then
 M-x load-library nnimal.el RET
to load nnimap as emacs source, and then started Gnus.

This time I was able to enter the nnimap groups, though a group with 444
articles loaded veeeeery slooowly, and when I finally was able to enter
it, I saw only the newest article in the group, and like the author of
the above article, I saw "nobody" as the sender of that article.

(I didn't use agent on that nnimap server.  That might have speeded up
things, but it would have added an extra error source, and would have
ended up saving multiple copies of the same office documents on my local
hard disk...)

So in short, nnimap with davmail doesn't work in a useful manner right
now.

However, back in October 2010, with the new nnimap freshly in place,
nnimap+davmail seemed to be working:
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69762/focus=73759
 nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73759

Are anyone else successfully using davmail and nnimap these days?

Thanks!


- Steinar