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bug#19284: 25.0.50; tls.el uses option --insecure
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
bug#19284: 25.0.50; tls.el uses option --insecure |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:04:21 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:15:45 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LI> As Stefan said in a different report -- perhaps we should just require
LI> Emacs with built-in TLS support if you want to use TLS. That would
LI> essentially mean that we should just remove tls.el and starttls.el.
LI> Alternatively we could, in Emacs 25.1, just remove the --insecure
LI> settings and let people who try to connect to their IMAP server just
LI> fail somewhat mysteriously (it's very common to have self-signed certs
LI> for IMAP).
I am in favor of either option and I think the first is cleaner.
There will be a small but vocal group that wants to use the external
tunnel utility. I think the benefit to the rest of the users will be
worth it, and that group can have a ELPA package to support them.
Ted