Re: IMAP/SSL problems

Re: IMAP/SSL problems

[Kai Grossjohann]

Jason Dufair <jase@dufair.org> writes:

> - When I look at the *Process List* buffer, I see that Gnus is trying to
> do "/bin/bash -c openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect
> myserver.org:993".  When I do this at a bash prompt, I just get the
> OpenSSL> prompt.

Is it a quoting issue?  Does

    /bin/bash -c "openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 --connect myserver.org:993"

work?

Re: IMAP/SSL problems

[Simon Josefsson]

Jason Dufair <jase@dufair.org> writes:

> I've been running Gnus 5.10.1 (and Oort before that) for quite a while,
> connecting to an IMAP server via ssl (under Cygwin) without any
> problems.  I have GNU Emacs 21.2.1 and OpenSSL 0.9.7b-1.  I recently
> upgraded my Cygwin install (to test a patch for Emacs under X) and my
> SSL IMAP connection no longer works.  Not sure what all got changed,
> system-wise, but here's what I do know:
>
> - When I do "openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect myserver.org:993" at
> a bash prompt, I get a connection to the remote IMAPd.
>
> - When I look at the *Process List* buffer, I see that Gnus is trying to
> do "/bin/bash -c openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect
> myserver.org:993".  When I do this at a bash prompt, I just get the
> OpenSSL> prompt.
>
> The relevant portion of my .gnus file is:
> (nnimap "home"
>         (nnimap-address "myserver.org")
> 	(nnimap-list-pattern ("*"))
> 	(nnimap-stream ssl))
>
> Any suggestions on what I can do to restore this connection?  Thanks!

Perhaps you could try installing GNUTLS and use the tls nnimap-stream
instead?

Or downgrade emacs, bash, openssl individually to see what caused the
change.