From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55019 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven E. Harris" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Replace starttls.el with GNUTLS based version? Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:57:37 -0800 Organization: SEH Labs 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 1070301602 29813 80.91.224.253 (1 Dec 2003 18:00:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3559@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 01 18:59:59 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 1AQsL1-0003lv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:59:59 +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 1AQsKj-0005lG-00; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:59:42 -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 1AQsKc-0005lA-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:59:34 -0600 Original-Received: from lax-gate3.raytheon.com (lax-gate3.raytheon.com [199.46.200.232]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52E03A0025 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:59:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ds02t00.directory.ray.com (ds02t00.directory.ray.com [147.25.154.117]) by lax-gate3.raytheon.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB1HxWj9016007 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:59:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ds02t00.directory.ray.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ds02t00.directory.ray.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id hB1HxDoX025890 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:59:30 GMT Original-Received: Received: from L75001820.sdo.us.ray.com ([192.27.58.82]) by ds02t00.directory.ray.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB1Hx1wT025693 sender seh@panix.com for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:59:02 GMT Original-Received: from sharr by L75001820.sdo.us.ray.com with local (Exim 4.24) id HP89W1-000DQ0-KU for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:57:37 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2003 03:31:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, cygwin32) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55019 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55019 Simon Josefsson writes: > How many uses STARTTLS? For SMTP or IMAP? I use it for IMAP. > 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. I built 'starttls' from source on Cygwin/Windows XP and it works fine. However, if GNUTLS is more widely used, I'd rather rely on something less home-grown than 'starttls.' For the record, I don't use X.509 certificates. -- Steven E. Harris