sending email with Gnus
Hello, As far as i know, Postfix does not support GNU TLS. Nevertheless! Is it possible sending email with Gnus (MUA) via Postfix (MTA)? In the future, i'll move to Gnus from Thundirbird. For now, only problem is an association with Postfix and GNU TLS. byunghee
Re: sending email with Gnus
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hello, As far as i know, Postfix does not support GNU TLS. Nevertheless! Is it possible sending email with Gnus (MUA) via Postfix (MTA)? In the future, i'll move to Gnus from Thundirbird. For now, only problem is an association with Postfix and GNU TLS. byunghee Don't confuse library incompatibility when building postfix with communication interoperability problems. Gnus should communicate fine with postfix. -- Noel Jones
Re: sending email with Gnus
On 1-Mar-2009, at 18:55, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Postfix does not support GNU TLS. Postfix does not 'support' TLS at all. It should work with Gnu TLS as well as with any other TLS library. -- Beware of the Leopard!
Re: sending email with Gnus
* LuKreme : > Postfix does not 'support' TLS at all. I wouldn't say it that way. STARTTLS looks like TLS support, if you ask me > It should work with Gnu TLS as well as with any other TLS library. As far as I knwo it doesn't :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf.hildebra...@charite.de) snick...@charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de The opposite of increment is excrement. -- Seen on Usenet, so it must be true.
Re: sending email with Gnus
Ralf Hildebrandt: > * LuKreme : > > > Postfix does not 'support' TLS at all. > > I wouldn't say it that way. STARTTLS looks like TLS support, if you > ask me > > > It should work with Gnu TLS as well as with any other TLS library. > > As far as I knwo it doesn't :) A couple years ago, Gnu TLS would exit the program (exit status 2) instead of reporting an error to Postfix, so that Postfix could switch to plaintext where appropriate. http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html#build_tls Wietse
Re: sending email with Gnus
* Wietse Venema : > A couple years ago, Gnu TLS would exit the program (exit status 2) > instead of reporting an error to Postfix, so that Postfix could > switch to plaintext where appropriate. > > http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html#build_tls Should I retry a build with GNUTLS? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf.hildebra...@charite.de) snick...@charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: sending email with Gnus
Ralf Hildebrandt: > * Wietse Venema : > > > A couple years ago, Gnu TLS would exit the program (exit status 2) > > instead of reporting an error to Postfix, so that Postfix could > > switch to plaintext where appropriate. > > > > http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html#build_tls > > Should I retry a build with GNUTLS? Apparently this library freaks out when there's no /dev/*random, so this is a double idiot problem. Idiot #1: GnuTLS library calls exit instead of allowing applications such as Postfix to provide randomness. Postfix provides randomness via a tlsmgr daemon that runs outside the chroot jail and that has access to /dev/*random. Idiot #2: Linux distro turns on CHROOT by default, but provides no /dev/*random. You're welcome to reproduce this. Wietse