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#7789
cannot send smtpmail using gmail & tls on woe32
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Reported by: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 14:59:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 8080
Found in version 24.0.50
Fixed in version 24.1
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> From: claudio.bley <at> gmail.com (Claudio Bley)
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:09:10 +0100
>
> gnutls-cli waits for a SIGALRM to initiate the STARTTLS handshake --
> which Emacs isn't able to send -- or, alternatively, an EOF -- which
> doesn't work because communication is done over a pipe instead of a
> PTY.
Is this a bug in the ported gnutls, in Emacs, or in both?
> I'm using cygwin's gnutls-cli and have hacked ssl.el in order to
> replace the signal-process calls with (call-process "kill.exe" nil nil
> nil "-ALRM" PID). This works because cygwin provides its own layer of
> signal handling and is able to send / receive the SIGALRM signal.
How about making that hack part of Emacs? It could be conditioned on
running on Windows.
TIA
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