Re: nnimap with openssl stopping up after connecting in Windows

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

Ok.  Now I also can report a success.  This time with cygwin openssl.

My Vista laptop have been blue screening a couple of times.  Apparently
Vista isn't supposed to do that, so IT support have been on me to turn
my laptop in for reinstallation (if it continues to blue screen they
will look at the hardware).

Since reinstallation is a bit of a hazzle, I've been dragging my heels
since mid-November.  But on Wednesday I finally turned it in, and got it
back on Friday.

And this time I wasn't hit with BLODA[1] when installing cygwin, so I
got cygwin openssl.

I modified the imap-ssl-program to use the full path to the cygwin
openssl.exe (I don't like to put cygwin in the PATH.  I prefer to put
GnuWin32 executables there to avoid line ending confusion for diff and
the like) and switched the nnimap server back to
       ((nnimap "myserver"
		(nnimap-address "myserver.dyndns.org")
                (nnimap-stream ssl))
and started Gnus, and it came up and connected to the nnimap server.
...well almost.

It failed at first, but when I entered the server buffer and opened the
nnimap server it opened.

I'm probably running a hook that us run too late...?  It's now running in
gnus-started-hook.  I tried gnus-open-hook and gnus-starting-hook, but
both are too late.

Does anyone know of a good hook candidate for me to use...?

Here's the emacs lisp code from my .emacs file:
(if windows-emacs
    (progn
      (defun use-cygwin-openssl-for-nnimap ()
        (let ((cygwin-openssl "C:\\cygwin\\bin\\openssl.exe"))
          (if (file-exists-p cygwin-openssl)
              (setq imap-ssl-program
                    (mapcar '(lambda (element)
                               (let ((newelement element))
                                 (if (string-match "openssl " element)
                                     (setq newelement (replace-match (concat cygwin-openssl " ") t t element)))
                                 newelement))
                            imap-ssl-program)))))
          (add-hook 'gnus-started-hook 'use-cygwin-openssl-for-nnimap)))


[1] <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda>