Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r104668: Set :use-starttls-if-possible so that we always use STARTTLS if the server supports it.

[Stefan Monnier]

>   Set :use-starttls-if-possible so that we always use STARTTLS if the
>   server supports it.

Looks like an ugly hack.  The explanation for what it does is unclear,
and there's a good reason for that: what it does (and the reason for
its existence) has to do with a failure of the non-builtin gnutls code
to do what it's requested to do.
So this option should be called something like "work-around-bug" or
"dont-optimize" or something.

But I'd first like to understand more precisely why it is that the
non-builtin code doesn't handle it right in the first place.


        Stefan