Re: Gnus and ESMTP

[Miroslav Zubcic <miroslav.zubcic@zesoi.fer.hr>]

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> There is a STARTTLS implementation in elisp/C [1] by Daiki Ueno that
> work with IMAP, if you want I could make an attempt to make it work
> for SMTP too.

It will be realy nice, I have tryed to do something with this
starttls elisp/C and smtp.el, but without some better progress. :-( On
the first look it seems simple, but it isn't. What Gnus + smtpmail
must to do is:

        - open connection on port 25
        - EHLO (not HELO)
        - STARTTLS (now he must show certificate to MTA and open ssl)
        - EHLO (yes, again, but now MTA don't offer STARTTLS anymore)
        - AUTH CRAM-MD5 (optionaly)
        - MAIL FROM:  ...... etc...

> As you noted, SMTP with the CRAM-MD5 SASL method is available at [2].
> I'm not sure the patch still apply cleanly but only minor
> modifications should be required anyway.

It looks like i miss some libraries, because patch wont byte-compile
properly. BTW, nnimap.el (or something in cooperation with it) is
using CRAM-MD5 SASL when loging to cyrus imapd.

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