Re: YAGAGT - Yet Another Gnus And Gmail thread!

[Torben Knudsen]

>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:

Sebastian> Quoth Torben Knudsen <tk@es.aau.dk>:
>>>>>>> "Ted" == Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com> writes:
>>
Ted> Sebastian Tennant wrote:
>>>> Is anyone really _sending_ email using Gnus and Gmail?
>>
Ted> Yup. Here's the relevant part of ~/.gnus:

Sebastian> Interesting that it works without defining the TLS program.
Sebastian> My setup (working at last) includes this line:

Sebastian>   (setq starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli")

I had this line but now it is commented out

Ted> I have a line in .authinfo that looks like this:

Sebastian>   Hmm, that's perhaps better that putting it in your .gnus

>> Another thing I notices was "Make sure you configured necessary
>> variables appropriately and have a suitable STARTTLS-GNUTLS-PROGRAM
>> installed" How do I check if I have such a program and if I need
>> it?

Sebastian> The Debian package is called gnutls-bin.

Sebastian>   $ dpkg -l | grep gnutls

Sebastian> should tell you if you have it or not, (provided you run
Sebastian> Debian of course).

It says 

tk@tk-laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep gnutls
ii  libgnutls13                                1.4.4-3build1
the GNU TLS library - runtime library

but there is no executable program called gnutls

also there is a package gnutls-bin which I haven't got.  Should I
install it?

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