Re: Gnus (smtpmail/nnimap) on NT without Cygwin?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Does anyone know what I need to install to get smtpmail and nnimap to
> work without Cygwin?

smtpmail.el should work without any external tools.

> The work I'm doing for a client required me to install their special
> version of Cygwin, which I foolishly did alongside my existing one.
> Thereafter, my SMTP mail sending began to fail.  Despite the fact that
> I have smtp-debug-info set to t, I get no *trace of ...* buffer.  All
> I see is (in *Messages*):

Perhaps you got a old buggy version of smtpmail.el.

> Furthermore, now my IMAP doesn't work either
>
>   ======================================================================
>   1 -> imap-opened: buffer=" *nnimap* stlport.com"
>   1 <- imap-opened: nil
>   ======================================================================
>   1 -> imap-open: server="stlport.com" port=nil stream=ssl auth=login buffer=" *nnimap* stlport.com"
>   | 2 -> imap-opened: buffer=" *nnimap* stlport.com"
>   | 2 <- imap-opened: nil
>   | 2 -> imap-open-1: buffer=" *nnimap* stlport.com"
>   | | 3 -> imap-ssl-open: name="imap" buffer=" *nnimap* stlport.com" server="stlport.com" port=nil
>   | | | 4 -> imap-parse-greeting: 
>   | | | 4 <- imap-parse-greeting: nil
>   | | | 4 -> imap-parse-greeting: 
>   | | | 4 <- imap-parse-greeting: nil
>   | | | 4 -> imap-parse-greeting: 
>   | | | 4 <- imap-parse-greeting: nil
>   | | | 4 -> imap-parse-greeting: 
>   | | | 4 <- imap-parse-greeting: nil
>   | | 3 <- imap-ssl-open: nil
>   | 2 <- imap-open-1: nil
>   1 <- imap-open: nil
>
> I haven't tracked this one down yet but I'm guessing it's due to the
> lack of a non-cygwin openssl on my system.

Yes, you need to install GnuTLS.