GNU bug report logs - #11205
24.0.95; starttls-use-gnutls no longer being honored

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: nyc4bos <at> aol.com

Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:57:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.0.95

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 11205 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: nyc4bos <at> aol.com
Cc: 11205 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11205: 24.0.95; starttls-use-gnutls no longer being honored
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:04:35 -0400

nyc4bos <at> aol.com wrote:

> How do I get Gnus (and presumably other Emacs networked programs) to
> not use GnuTLS when `starttls-use-gnutls' is nil?

etc/NEWS

  *** SMTPmail now uses encrypted connections (via STARTTLS) by default
  if the mail server supports them.  This uses either built-in GnuTLS
  support, or the starttls.el library.  Customize `smtpmail-stream-type'
  to change this.

> [Presumably, I can make the GnuTLS DLLs unavailable temporarily to
> achive this, but setting the variable `starttls-use-gnutls' to nil
> used to accomplish this, i.e. this is a regression.]

No previous release of Emacs has had built-in GnuTLS support.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 35 days ago.

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