imap: Garbage: RENEGOTIATING

imap: Garbage: RENEGOTIATING

[NAGY Andras]

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I'm using openssl to connect to my imap server, and sometimes emacs
prints "Garbage: RENEGOTIATING" and the connection hangs.  Figured out
that actually openssl (OpenSSL 0.9.4 09 Aug 1999) prints this and
confuses imap.el.

The reason is that openssl interprets an R as the first character on a
line as some kind of escape sequence and reacts:

lovi:~% openssl s_client -ssl3 -connect pandora.inf.elte.hu:993
[...]
---
* OK pandora Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.7 server ready
RABCD  # I type this
RENEGOTIATING
depth=0 /C=HU/ST=Hungary/L=Budapest/O=ELTE/OU=Department of Computer Science/CN=mailbox.inf.elte.hu/Email=root@inf.elte.hu
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:1
depth=0 /C=HU/ST=Hungary/L=Budapest/O=ELTE/OU=Department of Computer Science/CN=mailbox.inf.elte.hu/Email=root@inf.elte.hu
verify error:num=21:unable to verify the first certificate
verify return:1
* BYE Error 0
read:errno=0


Using the -quiet option[1] to s_client is the solution:

lovi:~% openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect pandora.inf.elte.hu:993
[...]
* OK pandora Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.7 server ready
RABCD
* BAD Invalid tag



Therefore uploading a message matching the regexp "^R" makes the
connection hang.  (At least, sometimes, as most messages stored in my
archive groups are followups, containing a _R_eferences header, but
only a few upload results in garbage: renegotiating.  Can't find the
pattern.)

See attached patch for fix.  Not sure whether this does not break
compatibility with older openssl versions, as the -quiet option might
not be available there.


Andras


[1]

                  -quiet

                     inhibit printing of session and certificate
                     information. This implicitely turns on -ign_eof as
                     well.

                  -ign_eof

                     inhibit shutting down the connection when end of
                     file is reached in the input.



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diff -u -r6.3 imap.el
--- imap.el	2000/12/19 22:18:56	6.3
+++ imap.el	2000/12/30 16:06:56
@@ -188,10 +188,10 @@
   :group 'imap
   :type '(repeat string))
 
-(defcustom imap-ssl-program '("openssl s_client -ssl3 -connect %s:%p"
-			      "openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect %s:%p"
-			      "s_client -ssl3 -connect %s:%p"
-			      "s_client -ssl2 -connect %s:%p")
+(defcustom imap-ssl-program '("openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p"
+			      "openssl s_client -quiet -ssl2 -connect %s:%p"
+			      "s_client -ssl3 -quiet -connect %s:%p"
+			      "s_client -ssl2 -quiet -connect %s:%p")
   "A string, or list of strings, containing commands for SSL connections.
 Within a string, %s is replaced with the server address and %p with
 port number on server.  The program should accept IMAP commands on