From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55029 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nevin Kapur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Replace starttls.el with GNUTLS based version? Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:17:16 -0800 Organization: Computer Science, Caltech Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070313460 22390 80.91.224.253 (1 Dec 2003 21:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3569@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 01 22:17:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQvQH-00006W-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:17:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AQvQ2-0006w6-00; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:17:22 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AQvPy-0006w1-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:17:18 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072C53A0025 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:17:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQvPx-0006Ia-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:17:17 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQvPw-0006IS-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:17:16 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQvPw-0005oK-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:17:16 +0100 Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Currently-Reading: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VF5oyc2WOzB5HpP6KlX6GSKX61E= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55029 Simon Josefsson writes: > How many uses STARTTLS? For SMTP or IMAP? I use it for both. > The external program 'starttls' isn't widely available (e.g., not > packaged by Debian) and it uses OpenSSL, so I would like to replace > the current starttls.el with a (partially) backwards compatible > version that uses GNUTLS. It is currently installed in Gnus CVS > contrib/starttls.el, and I have been using it for a while. Just to make sure I understand correctly, the replacement would allow me to continue using the starttls program (as long as I am not using client certificates), right? The last time I looked GNUTLS required compiling a bunch of other libraries, whereas starttls was a stand-alone application. -Nevin