Hi Dave, Sorry to see you getting frustrated. As I menioned in a previous post, I am out travelling but I am taking time off to write back because you seem to be stuck.
If you are a new user of VM (which wasn't clear from your earlier posts), then I recommend that you follow the instrucitons on the Emacswiki page: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailQuickStart In particular, I recommend that you use VM from the build directory as described in the INSTALL file and the Emacswiki page, and not do make install. Doing system install on Cygwin under Windows (which are two separate environments already) is a complicated business and you would need to know how everything works before you can attempt that. If the Emacswiki page is deficient in some way, please let us know and somebody will attempt to fix that. VM is one component in the open software setup, and all the other components have to fit and work correctly in order to get the results you need. Coming to your specific question: > i'm running windows7, so i installed stunnel 4.36 which includes an exe > file located in c:/program files (x86)/stunnel/stunnel.exe > > do i specify in the .vm file c:/program files (x86)/stunnel or > c:/program files (x86)/stunnel/stunnel or > c:/program files (x86)/stunnel/stunnel.exe (i guess my question > becomes, is vm supposed to start stunnel) VM is preconfigured to use "stunnel" (the value of the variable `vm-stunnel-program') whenever you need the secure sockets layer (SSL) for email. I myself use the Cygwin's stunnel program, which is on my PATH and Emacs's exec-path and I never had to configure anything for it. If you want to use some other stunnel program, then you need to specify either make sure that its location is included in the Emacs exec-path or specify the full path in the `vm-stunnel-program' variable. If it doesn't work, then I recommend that you simply use the Cygwin's stunnel program. VM gets close to 500 downloads from Launchpad, and an unknown number of other users download it from the gnu web site or use it from in-built Linux releases. The 22 users that have signed up to this mailing list are volunteers who care. They will be happy to help you with the problems you face. But please be SPECIFIC and PRECISE about the problems. Rants won't help because they will simply put off all the volunteers who are donating their time and attention to VM. I am afraid precision is lacking in your reports. For instance, you say you downloaded version 8.1.2, but there is no such release. You probably menat 8.1.1., or perhaps 8.2.0a pre-release. We don't know. You haven't mentioned which stunnel program you have installed. These details matter. If something is not working, you need to describe the precise behaviour you are witnessing so that we can figure out what could be going wrong. The more information you provide, the better help you can get. Cheers, Uday
