bug#9017: 24.0.50; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: Key usage violation in certificate has been detected.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

>>From the perspective of a user who doesn't know much about smtp, I
> agree with Stefan's previous message suggesting that it would be
> nice to get rid of the need to have customizations such as
>
>       (setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "normal:-dhe-rsa")
>
> But from my perspective this may go on the wishlist.
>
> Thanks a lot for all your efforts with this!

I think this can be closed now.  The problem was most likely a buggy TLS
installation on the server, because gnutls was unable to negotiate an
encryption algorithm to use.  

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