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Proposal to create `sieve-manage-ignore-broken-tls' option

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Message #13 received at 24422 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
To: 24422 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: yamaoka <at> jpl.org, tsuchiya <at> namazu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24422: Proposal to create `sieve-manage-ignore-broken-tls'
 option
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:21:48 -0400

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:08:37 +0900 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> wrote: 

KY> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:57:24 -0400, TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote:
>> When accessing a managesieve server which provides broken TLS
>> connections, it is quite useful that sieve-manage-open-server() ignores
>> STARTTLS capability.  Therefore, I propose the following patch.

KY> The patch looks fine and not likely to cause a trouble.  I've
KY> committed it in the Emacs master with this log entry:

KY> sieve-manage.el: Allow user to avoid STARTTLS capability test (bug#24422)

KY> * lisp/net/sieve-manage.el
KY> (sieve-manage-ignore-broken-tls): New user option.
KY> (sieve-manage-open-server):
KY> Don't test STARTTLS capability if the option is set (bug#24422).

I think the option is badly named. It doesn't ignore broken TLS
(whatever that means), it avoids STARTTLS altogether. So maybe it should
be `sieve-manage-ignore-starttls' or something like that.

Ted

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