Re: nnimap ports and protocols

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:47:19 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> That could be mapped in the Server buffer.  We already have a standard
>> way of editing forms in Gnus (server edit, topic/group parameter edit,
>> etc.) so this is not a bad way, usability-wise.

LMI> Yeah, that's true.  I think that's the way to go, then.

LMI> What about questions from the tls layer about "do you want to accept
LMI> this invalid certificate from the server?" and stuff?  If that's to be
LMI> stored in the server, then open-gnutls-stream should return both the
LMI> stream and, er, something that says something about this.  Perhaps a
LMI> plist of properties, like :certificate :invalid-but-accepted or
LMI> something.

"don't worry about the rilly technical stuff" ;)

The GnuTLS layer should handle all of that.  Gnus should not know about
certificate management; just like passwords or accepting SSH keys,
that's completely irrelevant to reading mail.

So I think Fgnutls_boot will need work and so on.  It's not bad.  I may
use auth-source.el to store the accepted certificates in a netrc file or
in the Secrets API.

Ted