Re: smtpmail and starttls

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Andrew Raines <aaraines@pobox.com> writes:

> I'm using Gnus 5.11 on Emacs 21.3.50/win32 (2005-01-30), with
> the OEM smtpmail.elc.  When submitting a message to an SMTP
> server advertising STARTTLS, smtpmail never issues the verb
> in response.  I've poked around in smtpmail-via-smtp, and if
> I comment out one line (below), smtpmail issues the verb, but
> then Emacs hangs while trying to call starttls.exe.
>
>   (if (and do-starttls
>            (smtpmail-find-credentials smtpmail-starttls-credentials host port)
>            (member 'starttls supported-extensions)
>  --->    ;;   (numberp (process-id process)))
>
> My starttls.exe binary is in c:\WINDOWS, which is in
> exec-path, which should be findable by Emacs:
>
>    (executable-find "starttls") <--- C-j
>    "c:/WINDOWS/starttls.exe"
>
> Does anybody use smtpmail and STARTTLS on windows-nt
> successfully?

Interesting, can you find out what (process-id process) return at that
point?  Perhaps process-id's on Windows aren't numbers?  The test is
intended to see if the process is a external process (starttls) or
internal network connection (plain tcp).