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Re: WinXP, IMAP, and SSL


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: WinXP, IMAP, and SSL
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:51:48 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

todesschaf@gmail.com (Nick Hurley) writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm using Gnus 5.9.0 with Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) on
> WinXP Pro SP1. I'm trying to get SSL working with it so I'm not forced
> to SSH into a *nix machine to have a secure connection to my
> mailservers. I finally got Gnus to recognize that I have OpenSSL
> installed (in C:\OpenSSL\bin)

One common problem is that OpenSSL simply isn't working.  Try 'openssl
s_client -connect your.mail.server:993' or whatever.

If OpenSSL is working, it is probably a problem with Gnus.  You, or
someone else, need to debug the code to find out why it hangs.
CRLF-confusion is a common culprit.


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