GNU bug report logs - #37221
27.0.50; gnus fails to open connection post-NSM update

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #62 received at 37221 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 37221 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#37221: 27.0.50; gnus fails to open connection post-NSM update
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 19:21:21 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 04 Sep 2019 19:06:24 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:

    Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:
    >> Thanks for testing. Lars, I donʼt think nsm should be prompting for a
    >> never-seen-before unencrypted connection, only for a previously
    >> encrypted downgraded connection?

    Lars> That depends on the settings, I think?  In `paranoid' it probably
    Lars> should, and if it's an IMAP connection, it definitely should even on
    Lars> `medium'.

Even when the user has said '(nnimap-stream plain)'? Thatʼs a very
explicit request not to do STARTTLS.

    Lars> Or is taking care of not sending passwords over non-encrypted
    Lars> connections done somewhere else now?

Not that I know of.

Robert
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