Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:39:46
From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze
Hi all,
Context: manually-compiled Emacs 24.5 on Debian Jessie x86_64.
For a while i'd been facing the problem that, when i opened an HTML email
(erk) in mu4e, Emacs would freeze; my only recourse was to terminate the
Emacs process.
Today i worked out that a call to `openssl` is the source of the problem:
installing the `gnutls-bin` package and modifying the value of the variable
`tls-program` to only call `gnutls-cli` fixed the issue.
Modifying `tls-program` to add the "-no_ssl3" switch to the `openssl`
invocation had not helped.
Of course, OpenSSL's internals are apparently a wretched hive of scum, so i'm
wondering if anyone else has faced this problem? Is this a known issue?
Alexis.