[SOLVED+patch] nnimap doesn't work with: stream gssapi, auth gssapi and SSL/TLS

[Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>]

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Hi!

I've posted a bug report to news server, but it seems to be overloaded
by spam. Here is the original message.

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:25:53 +0300 Boris Samorodov wrote:

> Hello Bugfixing Girls and Boys,
[skip]
> As I can see, the main difference is that the latter answer is
> beginning with some error message (the certificate is
> self-signed). But authentication in fact was successful.

Yes. That was the case.

Looking at gnus/imap.el I noticed a code at kerberos4 function dealing
with such messages. Hence, the next patch made gnus happy.


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--- imap.el.orig	Sun Oct 30 23:34:53 2005
+++ imap.el	Wed Nov 16 09:55:45 2005
@@ -591,6 +591,13 @@
 	    (while (and (memq (process-status process) '(open run))
 			(set-buffer buffer) ;; XXX "blue moon" nntp.el bug
 			(goto-char (point-min))
+			;; Athena IMTEST can output SSL verify errors
+			(or (while (looking-at "^verify error:num=")
+			      (forward-line))
+			    t)
+			(or (while (looking-at "^TLS connection established")
+			      (forward-line))
+			    t)
 			;; cyrus 1.6.x (13? < x <= 22) queries capabilities
 			(or (while (looking-at "^C:")
 			      (forward-line))

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Is anybody interested in committing the patch?


WBR
-- 
Boris B. Samorodov, Research Engineer
InPharmTech Co,     http://www.ipt.ru
Telephone & Internet Service Provider