From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71807 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: STARTTLS support Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:17:55 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: References: <87ocbo4e4c.fsf@gmail.com> <87mxr7z8hp.fsf@gmail.com> <844odf5ap0.fsf@davestoy.home> <87fwwx2fl9.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285487205 14418 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2010 07:46:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:46:45 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20180@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 26 09:46:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzlwY-0007ui-3j for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:46:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzlwK-0004VM-On; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:46:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzlwJ-0004VB-5b for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:46:27 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OzlwI-0007Ep-61 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:46:27 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OzlwH-0001Vh-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:46:25 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzlwH-0007sD-EE for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:46:25 +0200 Original-Received: from 121.229.54.157 ([121.229.54.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:46:25 +0200 Original-Received: from chenggao by 121.229.54.157 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:46:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.229.54.157 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RL9cc16FQ8LUDjBfcc6JwM4xGC8= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71807 Archived-At: *On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:17:54 -0500 * Also sprach Ted Zlatanov : > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:20:08 +0800 CHENG Gao wrote: > > CG> I am wondering if starttls.el and tls.el could be merged. To my > CG> understanding, they are to some extent same thing (anyway starttls is > CG> tls). According to manual starttls is recommended way (if server > CG> supports it), and gnutls is recommended tool. So IMHO starttls.el could > CG> be merged into tls.el, and change starttls-program default to gnutls > CG> instead of homebrewed starttls. Or even remove support of starttls (last > CG> version is in 2005)? > > Let me finish the GnuTLS integration work (currently stuck because of a > strange handshake problem) and then we can work on a sensible way to > have a single interface in Emacs to handle all the TLS modes. I'll make > sure to CC ding and emacs-devel for that. Meanwhile, if you or anyone > else wants to take a shot at fixing it, I've checked in my latest > (broken) GnuTLS work into the Emacs repo. > > Ted I just pulled and built. I confirm it works, just I need to input login info to connect to imap servers. Should I set some variables to make it use .authinfo(.gpg)?