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bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report
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bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report |
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Sun, 08 Jul 2018 05:41:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com> writes:
>
>>
>> `Unfortunally not because of Emacs not issuing a STARTTLS command...
>
> Could you show us your emacs mail configuration? Gnus normally does
> opportunistic TLS upgrade, and I thought that was the default for
> open-network-stream as well. [1]
>
> Regards
>
> Robert
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] Iʼm not a big fan of STARTTLS, as itʼs vulnerable to
> man-in-the-middle capability stripping. I use direct TLS
> connections to port 465 instead.
Thanks for this footnote. I used it to rule out whether
or not STARTTLS was rhe (main) problem,
Turns out it wasn't: a direct TLS connrction yielded the
same unsuccessful results. This caused me to look more
closely at the first SMTP transaction log whicn should
have issued a STARTTLS command.
Unfortunately, Emacs only records in its
*trace of SMTP sesssion to...* buffer the responses from
the SMTP server and mot also what commands are sent to it.
So while I presumed that a STARTTLS command wasn't being
issued because it failed and I wasn't being asked to
provide a password, a now closer look reveals that it
apparently was sent.
So it's failing for another reason which a direct TLS
connection helps to confirm.
It appears I have a similar problem as Ulrich Mueller
which he reported back April of last year in bug#26359;
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26359
His workaround. a `defadvice` also works for me.
Hopefully. a fix will solve these issues and allow one to
designatre for a partiular network connection that a
password is required (supplied or prompted for) upon an
initial connection and not just only after an initial
unauthenticated connetion failure;
Not sure if this bug report should be merged with bug#26359
as I have more than just one issue or should I open up new
bug report for those?
Thanks.
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