Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32

[Claudio Bley]

At Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:34:56 +0100,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 
> address@hidden (Claudio Bley) writes:
> 
> > +(eval-and-compile
> > +  (when (fboundp 'gnutls-boot) (require 'gnutls)))
> > +
> >  (defun starttls-negotiate-gnutls (process)
> 
> I think starttls.el should probably be left as is -- that is, use it
> only for doing the STARTTLS connections based on the external
> programs.

For me, external programs don't work (reliably, satisfactory, fast).

> That way it can be decided on a higher level whether to use the built-in
> version or not.  Which is particularly important since there are still
> rather serious bugs in the built-in gnutls support.

OK, but changing starttls.el in this manner, makes a whole bunch of
other libraries suddenly work which require starttls.el.

> Have a look at proto-stream.el (currently residing in the Gnus
> directory, but should be moved to the net directory at some point),
> which provides comprehensive support for TLS/STARTTLS based on
> starttls.el and/or gnutls.c (including opportunistic upgrades based on
> the capabilities of the server).

I'll look into it. Thanks.

> I've been meaning to change pop3.el and smtpmail.el to use
> open-protocol-stream to get these nice features working automatically
> there, too, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

But I want to receive/send Emails now ;-) As you can see I'm using
Wanderlust because Gnus just didn't cut it (haven't tried the trunk
version, though). Has POP3 UIDL support been implemented in the
meantime?

- Claudio