Subject: Re: bug#8689: 23.3; Gnus v5.13 freezes upon invocation of default STARTTLS in SMTP in GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 19:11:10 +0200

[email-masked] (Benjamin L. Russell) writes:

> 2. Replaced all three instances of:
> (signal-process (process-id process) 'SIGALRM)
> with
> (call-process starttls-kill-program nil nil nil
>                                    "-ALRM" (format "%d" (process-id
>                                    process)))

Right.

I don't use Windows, so I can't really offer any insights here, but if
you could provide patches to starttls.el to make it work under Windows,
that would be appreciated.

In Emacs 24, though, Emacs will come with built-in gnutls support, and
using starttls.el won't be necessary for most people.

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