tags 142855 + fixed-upstream
thanks
On 2008-06-17 20:01 +0200, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> This bug is unreproducible for me.
>>
>> However, I have seen it before, and it was because w3 was not available
>> (it's required for ssl). Do you have the w3-el-e21 package installed?
>>
>> Perhaps a wishlist bug should be filed upstream to improve the ssl
>> failure diagnostics, and/or emacs21 should recommend w3-el-21.
>
> I had the same problem and missing w3 was indeed the answer for
> me. However it took me quite a long time to discover this - indeed the
> penny only dropped when my googling led me to this particular bug.
>
> Now that I know what to look for I see that the gnus Info docs do
> mention the dependency in some of the places where you might need
> ssl.el, but not all of them. For instance I was editing mail-sources
> and therefore looking at s6.3.4.1 "Mail Source Specifiers" which does
> not mention it. Mentioning it this section would be a quick route to
> improvement.
This bug is fixed in Emacs 22, it includes Simon Joseffson's tls.el
package that supports both TLS and SSL and supersedes any ssl.el that
might be included in add-on packages like w3-el-e21.
Cheers,
Sven
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