Re: Vista, secure imap and firewalls?

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

> Nor can I connect using the command line command
>   openssl s_client -connect homeserver.dyndns.org:993
> from a cmd shell on this Vista machine.

> The command connects fine, using SUA community openssl, from a Win2008
> Server running in a different network, but that is potentially a
> different binary, since the 2008 Server is an AMD64 machine.

Using the Vista machine (it's a laptop) in my home LAN, I can connect to
the dovecot server with an openssl command as above.

So there's probably something firewallish between the Vista machine and
the outside world at work.  How and why that firewall lets through
Thunderbird traffic and stops the openssl command line client, I don't
know. 

It could be a characteristic of the traffic perhaps...?  But I would
have thought the Thunderbird SSL support came from openssl...=

Anyway: even with openssl working from the command line, Gnus fails to
open the connection:

Opening nnimap server on myserver...
imap: Connecting to myserver.dyndns.org...
imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...done
Waiting for response from myserver.dyndns.org...done
Unable to open server nnimap+myserver due to: Process imap not running
Unable to open server nnimap+myserver, go offline? (y or n) 
Opening nnimap server on myserver...failed

Here's my gnus-secondary-select-methods:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnimap "myserver"
		(nnimap-address "myserver.dyndns.org")
		(nnimap-stream ssl))
 	(nntp "news.gmane.org")
	(nndiary "")
	))

Hm... this setup is for a linux machine.  Do I perhaps need to do
something about line endings?