Re: Emacs core TLS support

[Jason Earl]

On Wed, Sep 29 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Jason Earl <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> While you are at it you might want to consider doing something with
>> nntp-authinfo-file.  Perhaps it should use auth-sources as well?
>
> It should, but since the auth-source interface is in a flux, I don't
> think that has to happen yet.
>
>> This probably means that I am not actually testing the built
>> in gnutls connections.  Right?
>
> Right.

Suddenly I feel considerably less helpful.

>> and I get
>>   Does Emacs use -lgnutls (BROKEN)?                       yes
>> What else do I need to do?
>
> Nothing uses the built-in gnutls support yet, but if you want to test
> it, say
>
> (progn
>   (require 'gnutls)
>   (open-ssl-stream "imap" (current-buffer) "imap.gmail.com" "imaps"))
>
> If you get a greeting, it works.  :-)  

Well, that did work for me, and with minor changes I got a response from
my own imaps server with it as well.  So at the very least that is
another successful trial.

Thanks for your patience with me.  I learned a great deal.
Unfortunately, none of it was helpful to Emacs as a whole.  Maybe next
time.

Jason