Re: YAGAGT - Yet Another Gnus And Gmail thread!

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Torben Knudsen <tk@es.aau.dk>:
>>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:
>
> Sebastian> Quoth Torben Knudsen <tk@es.aau.dk>:
>>>>>>>> "Ted" == Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
> Ted> Sebastian Tennant wrote:
>>>>> Is anyone really _sending_ email using Gnus and Gmail?
>>>
> Ted> Yup. Here's the relevant part of ~/.gnus:
>
> Sebastian> Interesting that it works without defining the TLS program.
> Sebastian> My setup (working at last) includes this line:
>
> Sebastian>   (setq starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli")
>
> I had this line but now it is commented out
>
> Ted> I have a line in .authinfo that looks like this:
>
> Sebastian>   Hmm, that's perhaps better that putting it in your .gnus
>
>>> Another thing I notices was "Make sure you configured necessary
>>> variables appropriately and have a suitable STARTTLS-GNUTLS-PROGRAM
>>> installed" How do I check if I have such a program and if I need
>>> it?
>
> Sebastian> The Debian package is called gnutls-bin.
>
> Sebastian>   $ dpkg -l | grep gnutls
>
> Sebastian> should tell you if you have it or not, (provided you run
> Sebastian> Debian of course).
>
> It says 
>
> tk@tk-laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep gnutls
> ii  libgnutls13                                1.4.4-3build1
> the GNU TLS library - runtime library
>
> but there is no executable program called gnutls
>
> also there is a package gnutls-bin which I haven't got.  Should I
> install it?

Yes, absolutely, install it.  That's the package you need.

My tip was supposed to read:

  $ dpkg -l | grep gnutls-bin

Doh!  Sorry.  You could be up and running by now!

Sebastian