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24.3.50; Gnus fails for self-signed certs when gnutls-verify-error is t

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger <at> fsfe.org>
Cc: 17061 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17061: 24.3.50;
 Gnus fails for self-signed certs when gnutls-verify-error is t
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:50:44 +0100

Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger <at> fsfe.org> writes:

> when gnutls-verify-error is t, Gnus fails to establish connections
> to servers with self-signed certificates.  This is to be expected,
> but I do not get any information about certificate problems at all.
> Gnus just fails silently and reports the server as offline in the
> *Server* buffer.

Aren't there any messages from the gnutls layer saying what happened?

I don't think there's any good mechanism to report these errors back up
to the application layer...  or is there?

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