Re: [Patch] use glib for digest calculations (was: Re: Sv: Balsa release?)

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Hi Albert,
On 2016.12.29 13:27, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 29.12.16 19:12 schrieb(en) Jack:
> > > openssl s_client -starttls imap -connect your.provider.com:143
> >
> > I get a timeout for yahoo, at&t, and gmail.  (AT&T email is actually  
> > run by Yahoo, although it's an att.net server.)  As far as I can  
> > tell, all three should support this.  (I mainly use POP3 with balsa  
> > on my main desktop PC, but I use IMAP on my laptop, tablet, and  
> > phone.)  I'm using openssl 1.0.2j.  Is this likely a configuration  
> > issue on my part, or are there known problems with any of those  
> > providers?
>
> Maybe they don't support IMAP w/ STARTTLS over port 143, but only  
> IMAPS (port 993)?  I.e. you have to say
>
> openssl s_client -connect your.provider.com:993
>
> as to negotiate the ssl connection *before* starting the protocol.   
> At least for yahoo, this works:
>
> <snip>
> albrecht@deneb:~$ openssl s_client -connect imap.mail.yahoo.com:993
> [... snip the certificate stuff ...]
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ID MOVE NAMESPACE X-ID-ACLID UIDPLUS  
> LITERAL+ CHILDREN XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE XYMHIGHESTMODSEQ AUTH=PLAIN  
> AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=XYMCOOKIE AUTH=XYMECOOKIE  
> AUTH=XYMCOOKIEB64 AUTH=XYMPKI] IMAP4rev1 imapgate-1.8.1_01.20166
> 0001 CAPABILITY
> * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 ID MOVE NAMESPACE X-ID-ACLID UIDPLUS LITERAL+  
> CHILDREN XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE XYMHIGHESTMODSEQ AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN  
> AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=XYMCOOKIE AUTH=XYMECOOKIE AUTH=XYMCOOKIEB64  
> AUTH=XYMPKI
> 0001 OK completed
> </snip>
>
> I.e. yahoo doesn't support CRAM-MD5, only LOGIN and PLAIN (plus some  
> non-standard extensions like XOAUTH2, etc.).
>
> Cheers,
> Albrecht.

I'll have to try that, but looking at the config in Thunderbird, it did  
look like all three supported 143 with STARTTLS.  Maybe it's just a  
generic config for the dropdown, and would only be caught if I actaully  
tried to use it there.  I'll get back to this later.

Jack