Re: Downloading mail using pop3s

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:03:25 +0100 Manuel Carro <mcarro@fi.upm.es> wrote: 

MC> Hello.  I am trying to read mail through pop3s and gnutls-cli seems to
MC> be able to made a connection:

MC> However Gnus exits with an error:

MC> Reading /home/mcarro/.newsrc.eld...
MC> Reading active file from mail via nnml...
MC> nnml: Reading incoming mail from pop...
MC> Opening TLS connection to `my.host.com'...
MC> Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli -p 995 my.host.com'...done
MC> Opening TLS connection to `my.host.com'...done
MC> Mail source (pop :server my.host.com :port pop3s :user mcarro) error (POP 
SSL connexion failed).  Continue? (y or n) 

MC> I can read using (non-secure) pop3.  Is there any way to snoop what the
MC> gnutls-cli is doing, to try to isolate the problem?  Thanks!

You can trace through the functions that the
mail-source-{check,fetch}-pop functions call.  I'm not sure what's
wrong, but I would try the :program option to make sure a direct call to
gnutls-cli works and then use :port to indirectly call it.

Ted