Re: [PATCH] POP3 Over SSL with openssl

[Naohiro Aota <nao.aota@gmail.com>]

Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> writes:

> Naohiro Aota <nao.aota@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> writes:
>>
>>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 03 2008, Naohiro Aota wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I tried to retrieve mails by POP3 Over SSL with openssl, but Gnus
>>>>> stopped working displaing "Retrieving message 1 of 5 from myserver...".
>>>>> Then I found that without -ign_eof and -quiet argument, openssl doesn't
>>>>> send line begins with "R" or "Q" to server but renegotiate or quit its
>>>>> connection. So sending "RETR" command made this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest to call openssl commands with "-ign_eof" argument. Please find
>>>>> the patch below.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone see a problem with this?
>>>
>>> Since I don't use POP3, I can't test that. However, it looks fine to me
>>> and it certainly doesn't break IMAP (checked that).
>>
>> Aren't you using "ssl" as nnimap-stream?
>
> No, I'm using tls. Sorry if you got the wrong impression, but my comment
> was meant as an acknowledgement to back your change.
>
>> If so, please check `imap-ssl-program' to find out how openssl is
>> called. By default, this variable is set as following.
>>
>> '("openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p"
>>   "openssl s_client -quiet -ssl2 -connect %s:%p"
>>   "s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p"
>>   "s_client -quiet -ssl2 -connect %s:%p")
>>
>> In this case, openssl is called with "-quiet" argument, which also make
>> openssl ignore eof, so that it works fine.
>
> Yes, I know. All I wanted to confirm was that it also works with tls
> since your change was concerned with tls-program rather than
> imap-ssl-program.

Oups. I'm sorry for my misunderstanding. Thanks for your testing.

Regards,

Naohiro