Re: IMAPS problems...

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.08.22 14:14:38 +0100 Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 2001.08.21 16:18 Carlos Morgado wrote:

> > 
> > > 2. The message occurs even when IMAPS is NOT enabled for any servers.
> > that's cause the server has TLS, and balsa defaults to using TLS now.
> > atm the only way of disabling TLS is not compiling with ssl. i hardcoded
> > it "on" cause a) to see what breaks b) cause i didn't have time to do the
> > GUI config stuff properly.
> Ahh. I'd never noticed the TLS support, or even the distinction between SSL
> and TLS, since our other mail clients use SSL only.
> 
> So enabling SSL in the config would mean using SSL _and_ TLS, which is
> fairly meaningless, right?

right. TLS is SSL inside the IMAP protocol. that will eventually go away, but
i haven't figured out a proper aproach as some stupid servers only allow TLS 
logins even you're using SSL.

at this point if your server supports CAP STARTTLS balsa will use TLS

 
> Anyhow, I think the mail check actually segfaults, based on the stack trace
> included below - the hang is caused by the fork()/exec() issues discussed
> elsewhere (Bug 59305)
> 
> #0  0x400df8a5 in __sigsuspend (set=0x4104e420)
>     at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c:45
> #1  0x404450d9 in __pthread_wait_for_restart_signal (self=0x4104fc00)
>     at pthread.c:934
> #2  0x40444a2f in __pthread_kill_other_threads_np () at restart.h:34
> #3  0x4016ca0a in __execve (file=0x402a87c3 "/usr/bin/gnome_segv", 
>     argv=0x4104e640, envp=0xbffff20c) at
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/execve.c:42
> #4  0x4016cc25 in execl (path=0x402a87c3 "/usr/bin/gnome_segv", 
>     arg=0x402a87c3 "/usr/bin/gnome_segv") at execl.c:74
> #5  0x40254f0d in gnome_segv_handle () from /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32
> #6  0x40445935 in pthread_sighandler (signo=11, ctx=
>       {gs = 23, __gsh = 0, fs = 0, __fsh = 0, es = 43, __esh = 0, ds = 43,
> __dsh = 0, edi = 135997304, esi = 135917804, ebp = 1090845268, esp =
> 1090845240, ebx = 1080702740, edx = 135252169, ecx = 0, eax = 135658480,
> trapno = 14, err = 4, eip = 1075014824, cs = 35, __csh = 0, eflags = 66054,
> esp_at_signal = 1090845240, ss = 43, __ssh = 0, fpstate = 0x4104f7b8,
> oldmask = 2147483648, cr2 = 0})
>     at signals.c:97
> #7  <signal handler called>
> #8  0x40136ca8 in strcmp () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> 

the interesting bit of the trace starts here

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