On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:29:15PM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > the README.Debian for mutt says: > > SSL > support > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > SSL support has been disabled because debian cannot legally distribute > binaries of a GPLed program like mutt linked with a library with a > four clauses BSD-style license like the one of OpenSSL. > If you want SSL support you'll have to install the libssl09-dev package > and recompile the package yourself after editing debian/rules. > No source changes are needed. > > there are other *-ssl packages like apache ssl. why can't we have > mutt-ssl? is there any chance there will be mutt-ssl in the future? > what's the story? > > thanks for any insight > > erik
I'm a newbie, I have very little notion of what SSL is, or does, and if there is a difference between OpenSSL & SSL. I have been doing some recent reading on PGP and GPG though because I would like to try to protect some amount of my privacy. Anyway, I have mutt version 1.2.5-4 loaded (potato) and my /usr/share/doc/README.Debian file indicates the following: Experimental crypto modules ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This version of mutt has been patched to dynamically load at run time the modules needed for SSL security and Kerberos V authentication. The Kerberos code is untested. Needed packages: libssl09 (for SSL support) heimdal-lib (for Kerberos support) Please try to break it and report any problem or success story to [EMAIL PROTECTED] **** I don't know if this helps, but it appeared relavant to your information qwest. Barry Mathieu I'm a newbie, not a programmer, but interested in the potential power.