Re: Fixed the support for OpenSSL

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Fixed and added some documentation:

$ tail docs/building.txt -n 9
SSL support
-----------
If you want to build with support for SSL, you can either choose for
Mozilla's NSS or OpenSSL:

  --with-ssl=nss        Detect NSS and if available, use it
  --with-ssl=nss-must   Require NSS and it not available, fail the build
  --with-ssl=openssl    Detect OpenSSL and if available, use it
  --with-ssl=none       Do NOT detect any SSL, and DON'T use it



On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:53 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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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