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Re: TLS smpt encryption
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: TLS smpt encryption |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:42:39 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
SJ> I've seen it suggested that people have had success on Windows
SJ> using the starttls binary instead of gnutls-cli. But I don't
SJ> really know what works under Windows, so I don't know how to
SJ> improve things here.
>>
>> The problem is with your process handling.
>>
>> (signal-process (process-id process) 'SIGALRM)
>>
>> wont work.
SJ> Why not? Wouldn't that a bug in NTEmacs?
>> If you are using the cygwin gnutls, then this can be faked using
>> "kill" directly, but NTEmacs cannot send this signal, at least to
>> my knowledge.
SJ> If "kill" can do it, then probably NTEmacs could too. And
SJ> NTEmacs probably should do that, especially if `signal-process'
SJ> doesn't do anything useful at all under Windows. However, some
SJ> NTEmacs person should answer this.
No. "kill" in question is cygwin kill, which NTEmacs doesn't know
about. NTEmacs is a windows process, so only knows how to send windows
process signals. As far as I know, windows doesn't do SIGALRM -- I
could be wrong. I try not to get this close to the OS where ever
possible.
>> I might try starttls, but in general, its easier to have as few
>> extraneous binaries as possible, hence the desire to use
>>
>> If TLS is compatible with SSL, would it not possible to use the
>> SSL binaries. As I say, the IMAP code works fine using SSL?
SJ> IMAP uses the same library, starttls.el, as SMTP. So they are
SJ> already using the same tools. Btw, IMAP uses TLS, strictly
SJ> speaking.
No, I don't think you are right. From the Gnus/imap documentation.
* "tls:" Connect through TLS. Requires GNUTLS (the program
`gnutls-cli').
* "ssl:" Connect through SSL. Requires OpenSSL (the program
`openssl') or SSLeay (`s_client').
So, I am using OpenSSL not tls, nor gnutls-cli to communicate with my
IMAP server. The communication layer works fine here. Certainly, my
imap connections worked fine without gnutls-cli being installed.
>> Yep. Once everwhere goes, I can no longer send email with
>> emacs. I spent 6 months on outlook this year and the experience
>> was, er, less than optimal, shall I say.
SJ> Many people have migrated to SMTP over TLS with Emacs too, I
SJ> remember writing the first support for this in Emacs around 2000
SJ> to 2001 somewhere, and many used it successfully even back then.
Under windows?
Phil