Re: [evolution-patches] bug 345135 proposed patch

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 16:22 +0200, Niels Vorgaard Christensen wrote:
> Some IMAP servers disconnect Evolution during the handshake following
> the STARTTLS command. This happens because Evolution uses a SSL version
> 2 compatible HELLO, while the server expects a TLS HELLO. The attached
> patch corrects this behavior by disabling the SSL_V2_COMPATIBLE_HELLO
> option on the ssl fd when the CAMEL_TCP_STREAM_SSL_ENABLE_SSL2 flag is
> disabled for the stream.
> 
> This will of cause break on servers which expects a SSLv2 HELLO on
> STARTTLS if such exists.
> 
> I have attached a similar patch to the bug, but I think the one attached
> to this mail is slightly more consistent.

FYI, applied to Tinymail's camel-lite:
http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/changeset/2822

Adding Srinivasa in CC as he's porting things from camel-lite to camel.


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