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Re: I'm stumped, how on earth do I get gnus to use ssl and not cleartext


From: Tassilo Horn
Subject: Re: I'm stumped, how on earth do I get gnus to use ssl and not cleartext passwords?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:04:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Andreas Davour <anteRUN@updateLIKE.uu.HELLse> writes:

Hi Andreas,

> Since an openssl connection is made, is this just a nonsense warning

It's no warning, only an information.

> that I'm sending a cleartext password along my ssl connection,
> i.e. not sending the password in cleartext at all?

Exactly.  You send the password in cleartext but through an encrypted
connection, which is absolutely fine.

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
Richard Stallman can solve the halting problem... in polynomial time.





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