Re: gnutls-cli works but wl hangs

["Herbert J. Skuhra" <hskuhra@fastmail.fm>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:59:21 +0100  wrote:

> On Friday 01 October 2010 20:33:44 Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:30:43 +0100  wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get wl to attach to an imap server. The server uses tls,
> > > with plain authentication. I'm running Ubuntu, with emacs 22 and either
> > > wl 2.14.10 or wl 2.15.6 (package wl-beta). Both packages show the same
> > > problem.
> > > 
> > > The folder definition looks something like:
> > > 
> > > %remote_folder:"my.name@example.com"/plain@imap.example.com:993!!
> > 
> > Plain is no valid authenticate type. Try clear instead.
> > Other values: login (default), cram-md5, digest-md5 and ntlm.
> 
> According to dovecote, 'plain' is perfectly valid. I also manage the imap 
> server, so I know that I have set up the server so that it disables 'plain' if 
> tls is not used, and enables 'plain' if it is. When I try to login without tls 
> I get the correct response that 'plain' is not supported. I get no such 
> respopnse when trying tsl, so either wl has not got round to asking what the 
> server supports, or it has asked and found 'plain' to be accepted.
> 
> Here is the capability response from the server:
> 
> CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT 
> LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=PLAIN

No STARTTLS. When do you see this?
Normally this means the server doesn't support it or you are
connecting via SSL. Or am I wrong? 

> Or, wl has asked the server and has go no response? Unlikely, because I got 
> the above string straight from the session opened with the gnutls command. 
> 
> > Are you sure you want starttls on port 993? Try a single ! for SSL.

Have you tried:

%remote_folder:"my.name@example.com"/clear@imap.example.com:993!

Does it make any difference?

-Herbert