Your message dated Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:02:17 -0500 with message-id <87zjcnj2k6....@trouble.defaultvalue.org> has caused the report #766397, regarding emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL. to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) emacs-de...@gnu.org
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--- Begin Message ---[When possible, please preserve the -forwarded address in any replies.] The following issue was just reported against emacs23 in Debian, and from a quick glance, it looks like 24.4 still uses s_client, so if this is a problem, it's perhaps still relevant. Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> writes: > It has come to my attention that Gnus is using s_client to set up > SSL connections to retrieve email. Please stop using that. > s_client is a debug tool, it does not set up a secure connection, > it ignores all errors and just continues. It also doesn't do > checks it should be doing. This is all documented behaviour. > > Please get rid of all documentation, configurations and examples > that tell you how to set it up using s_client. > > I've also seen examples adding -ssl2 and -ssl3 which is really > really broken. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
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