Re: Fixed the support for OpenSSL

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:38 +0300, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Although still not tested enough, I fixed the support for OpenSSL in
> Tinymail.
> 
> There's also a new build option:
> 
> --with-ssl=nss (default)
> --with-ssl=openssl
> --with-ssl=none

However, if I use --with-ssl=nss, and no NSS packages are installed, it
silently falls back to no ssl support. This seems wrong.

> If either nss or openssl is selected, the configure script will
> nevertheless know better and search for the availability of your choice.
> 
> With the option, though, you can select between either nss or openssl,
> or just none (don't try finding a suitable SSL library at all, and
> always assume its non availability).
> 
> The "nss" option is the default, preferred and most tested one.
> 
> ps. I tested the OpenSSL implementation with GMail's POP service too. It
> seemed to 'just work'.
> 
> 
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Murray Cumming
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