Re: SSL or TLS ?

[m. kolb]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Just a quick and dumb question:
>
> is Gnus able to deal with TLS ?
>
> I want my Gnus to connect on my IMAP server using TLS exclusively
> and so I could get rid of SSL on it.
>
> Same for my SMTP.

It will work for both.  you need to set nnimap-stream to ssl for IMAP
and for SMTP you need to install gnutls and set your
smtpmail-starttls-credentials.  SMTP is actually done by a separate
(not-gnus) lisp package, smtpmail (see here:
http://josefsson.org/smtpmail.html)

./muk

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m. kolb  <muk@msu.edu>