From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11768 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven E. Harris" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Trouble connecting with IMAP (Windows Emacs with Cygwin SSL/TLS tools) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:20:02 -0500 Organization: SEH Labs Message-ID: <83r63xlhwd.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> References: <83hc9lghtb.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> <86skoecxc2.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230133228 14223 80.91.229.12 (24 Dec 2008 15:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 16:41:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LFVrZ-0003aR-RI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:41:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LFVqM-0007NM-Ug for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:40:18 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-131-239-140.hsd1.pa.comcast.net Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1230132001 5960 24.131.239.140 (24 Dec 2008 15:20:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:20:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.4.21 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GoEXzFEes8r+6Se5BYrq41gNGdg= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:82028 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11768 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > I haven't replied because I don't know much about Emacs coding > systems, but it's been a while since you made this report. Thanks for reviving the topic. Steinar Bang recently took up a similar discussion on the ding list.¹ > Have you found a workaround, have things started working with a newer > Emacs CVS, or are you still stuck? Unfortunately, I'm still stuck. I haven't installed a newer Emacs; the one I have installed is GNU Emacs 22.3.1, built on 6 September 2008. I have updated my Gnus installation to track the CVS repository. As I mentioned earlier, I had been building up my Emacs installation to be parallel with the XEmacs setup I've built over the last ten years or so, but I'm never going to make the switch until I get Gnus working properly. > I don't have a Cygwin setup here but I can make one if no one else can > help debug this. What would happen if someone installed Emacs on Windows without Cygwin? Could Gnus running in Emacs still make secure connections to an IMAP server? I'm loath to install another OpenSSL package, given that the Cygwin one is already there on my computer, but perhaps that's what it's going to take. What's odd here is that a non-Cygwin Emacs is able to use various Cygwin programs without trouble. What is special about this case, where apparently openssl as invoked by Emacs is able to negotiate a secure connection properly, but not get the actual payload content through as expected? Dangerous as it may be, how does one convince Gnus /not/ to use a secure connection to an IMAP server? I'd like to try that temporarily to see if it works when we take openssl out of the picture. Footnotes: ¹ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67801/focus=67809 -- Steven E. Harris