Re: pop3+ssl

[Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> In pop3-open-server, for what purpose is `while' used?  If it is
> intended to run cyclically, it seems to lack some conditions or
> other.

`delete-region' returns nil, but I guess for clarity it should be
wrapped in (progn ... nil).

> I cannot try it practically since I have no pop3 server which
> supports ssl, though.

As far as I remember, I tested a Gnus 5.11 version for pop3s against
Gmail and starttls against MS Exchange, with both gnutls and openssl
client programs, but I was a while.  I hoped others would test it
better and fix it if necessary if it was installed.

The TLS stuff is pretty horrible, though.  I'd hope to be able to open
the stream without having to worry about what is output before the
protocol bits you're interested in, and to have return values
indicating whether the connexion has been established securely.