Re: gmail from gnus

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 24 Nov 2006, raherh@gmail.com wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>>>> This is probably the problem.  I use starttls:
>>>>
>>>> starttls (starttls) 0.10
>>>> Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>>
>>>> and it works for me.  Maybe someone that uses GnuTLS can help you?
>
> I'm not able to build starttls on windows with MinGW.
>
> starttls.c complains it cannot find headers (sys/socket.h, sys/ioctl.h,
> netdb.h netinet/in.h) and also throws errors.
>
> I should probably ask somewhere else. It appears gnus and gmail don't
> fit together.

Neither Gnus nor Gmail are the problem.  You just don't have a usable
starttls binary.  You could try to compile under cygwin, or you can
talk to the GnuTLS mailing list for help.  Either way, you need
something to talk TLS between Gnus and Gmail, that's all.

Ted