Re: nnimap versus tls

[Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
>>> IMHO, gnutls-cli should print this to stderr instead of stdout.
>>
>> It does.  It doesn't make a difference: the elisp manual states that
>> stderr and stdout of subprocesses can't be separated without using
>> shell redirection or something similar, and unless I misread the code,
>> we do no such thing.
>
> Should we add a '2>/dev/null' to the imap-*-program variables then?

Nope. /dev/null doesn't show up in debug or IMAP buffers, and the stderr
output of these openssl or gnutls-cli or whatever stream encoders might
give indispensable help what the user did wrong.

> On the other hand, we need the initial stuff (like 'Client
> authentication finished') to notice authentication status, and that is
> probably printed to stderr.  Ouch.

See :-)

-- 
Matthias Andree