Source: emacs
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Was on stretch, upgraded to buster, this broke my Gnus configuration, and could
no longer fetch mail from a dovecot pop3s server.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Reverting to stretch (which uses emacs-24) fixed it.
With a .gnus.el file:
(require 'cl)
(require 'tramp)
(require 'gnutls)
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "" (nnml-inhibit-expiry t)))
(setq mail-sources '((pop :server "mail.foo.com" :port 995 :user
"username")))
On buster:
$ dpkg -l emacs-nox
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-======================================
ii emacs-nox 1:26.1+1-3.2 amd64 GNU Emacs editor (without GUI
support)
On the dovecot server side, I see:
Jul 22 13:00:06 dodson dovecot[24176]: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth
attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=192.168.x.y, lip=192.168.x.z, TLS:
read(size=429) failed: Connection reset by peer, session=<4ry/hUqO4qnAqFAE>
On the emacs side, I see a message:
Mail source (pop :server mail.foo.com :port 995 :user russell) error
(Process POP not running). Continue? (yes or no)
Tracing the emacs executable with strace, I never see an execve of gnutls-cli.
8828 13:00:54 execve("/usr/bin/emacs", ["emacs"], 0x7fff802bd1c8 /* 19 vars
*/) = 0
8829 13:01:00 execve("/usr/bin/movemail", ["/usr/bin/movemail", "--version"],
0x7ffd990890c0 /* 19 vars */ <unfinished ...>
8830 13:01:01 execve("/usr/bin/openssl", ["/usr/bin/openssl", "version"],
0x7ffd99087890 /* 19 vars */ <unfinished ...>
On stretch (it works):
$ dpkg -l emacs-nox
||/ Name Version
Architecture Description
+++-==============================================-============================-============================-==================================================================================================
ii emacs-nox 46.1
all GNU Emacs editor (metapackage, without X support)
On the dovecot server side, I see:
Jul 24 23:50:59 server dovecot[24176]: pop3-login: Login: user=<russell>,
method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.x.y, lip=192.168.x.z, mpid=622, TLS,
session=<wXcv2XuOxuLAqFAE>
Tracing the emacs executable with strace, I see execve's:
2961 12:56:55 execve("/usr/bin/emacs", ["emacs"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
2963 12:56:59 execve("/usr/bin/openssl", ["/usr/bin/openssl", "version"], [/*
17 vars */] <unfinished ...>
2964 12:56:59 execve("/usr/bin/gpg", ["/usr/bin/gpg", "--with-colons",
"--list-config"], [/* 17 vars */] <unfinished ...>
2965 12:57:05 execve("/bin/bash", ["/bin/bash", "-c", "gnutls-cli --x509cafile
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt -p 995 mail.foo.com"], [/* 18 vars */]
<unfinished ...>
2965 12:57:05 execve("/usr/bin/gnutls-cli", ["gnutls-cli", "--x509cafile",
"/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt", "-p", "995", "mail.foo.com"], [/* 18 vars
*/]) = 0
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
