From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with new smtpmail
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:00:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38vsb762e.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87oc17o1ho.fsf@wanadoo.es
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> Dunno. In any case, if the server announces that it supports STARTTLS,
> it is no reason for bailing out. Support for STARTTLS does not mean that
> other authentication methods are unsupported. At least this server works
> fine with user/pass auth.
Ok.
> And STARTTLS is not supported by Emacs (generic) or there was something
> missing at configure time that makes *my* Emacs to lack STARTTLS?
Yes. You compiled your Emacs without gnutls support, and you don't have
gnutls-cli installed, either.
> From reading NEWS again, it may seem that STARTTLS is supported but
> not properly configured on my setup (missing
> smtpmail-starttls-credentials, perhaps?)
That variable doesn't exist, so, no. :-)
> If that's the case, the error message is misleading. Saying
> something like "STARTTLS is not properly configured, see
> smtpmail-starttls-credentials variable" would be more helpful.
No, the error message means what it says.
> That's fine if you start from a clean setup, but my short experience
> demonstrates that if you have previous settings, one ends confused.
I think the only thing your example showed was that smtpmail was
over-zealous in requiring STARTTLS if the server offered it...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 1:46 Problems with new smtpmail Óscar Fuentes
2011-07-06 15:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 15:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 15:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-07-06 16:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 16:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-07-06 15:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-07-06 16:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-06 16:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-07-06 16:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-06 18:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-07 3:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-06 18:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-07-06 19:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 20:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-07-06 20:38 ` Sam Steingold
2011-07-06 21:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 22:19 ` Sam Steingold
2011-07-06 22:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 20:41 ` Sam Steingold
2011-07-06 21:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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