Re: ssl?
>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> and why GNU emacs smtpmail has the following
>
> (defcustom smtpmail-stream-type nil
> :type '(choice (const :tag "Possibly upgrade to STARTTLS" nil)
> (const :tag "Always use STARTTLS" starttls)
> (const :tag "Never use STARTTLS" plain)
> (const :tag "Use TLS/SSL" ssl)))
Stephen> The short answer is "GNU Emacs has 10x as many developers as we do
and
Stephen> Mozilla has 100x".
Only 10x? :-)
Stephen> Since we can depend on gnutls-cli, I don't suppose it would be hard
to
Stephen> port enough of GNU Emacs's capabilities to allow XEmacs to talk to
Stephen> dedicated SSL ports like https, nntps, and smtps. Unfortunately I
Stephen> don't have time at the moment. But this would surely be good enough
Stephen> for you since you evidently have gnutls installed (Emacs won't use
Stephen> OpenSSL as a matter of principle).
FWIW, I first tried setting starttls-use-gnutls to t (the default?),
but I never got that to work either. Or at least I didn't persist. I
don't remember exactly what happened, but the version of gnutls-cli
that I had didn't seem to work correctly with xemacs. That's when I
set starttls-use-gnutls to nil, which worked better.
Ray
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