From: Bruno Tavernier <tavernier.bruno@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Allow network login over secured network
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:40:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878w2ijlnr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Here is the story:
When one is behind a proxy with limited access (i.e. http and https) it
is sometime convenient to create some ssh tunnels to reach freedom. In
our case, mails and news server. ;-)
In such a case, the connection being already secured by ssh, it makes
sense to simply login with for instance (nnimap-stream network).
I guess the performance hit of a double layer of encryption (ssh+tls) is
no huge, but still.
However, with the commit below, connecting over ssh to starttls capable
server automatically upgrade "network" to "starttls".
2010-09-30 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
* nnimap.el (nnimap-open-connection): Reinstate the auto-upgrade from
unencrypted to STARTTLS, if possible.
Would it be possible to do something like:
Gnus default option -> "starttls" (as its seems to be the favored method
and plain text connection is *bad*)
When user wants to use "network", well, if they set the option they know
what they're doing (or let's hope so). :-)
--
Bruno
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2010-10-01 9:40 Bruno Tavernier [this message]
2010-10-01 17:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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