General discussion of the Mew MIME mail reader for Emacs/XEmacs

maxigas | 22 Mar 2012 14:35

[mew-int 3054] stunnel4 vs. mew 6.4

hi!

After a recent upgrade on wheezy (= debian testing) mew started to behave in a very funny way:

POP3/SMTP connection with SSL to the mailserver works only every second time!

I hit "i" and it locks up at "Creating an SSL/TLS connection...".  Then I hit "C-g" and "C-cC-k" to unlock the
buffer.  Then I hit "i" and it works perfectly, but it locks up the next time I try the same key, etc.

I think this happened a few years ago, but I couldn't find in the mail archive or the mew.org website any
relevant information.

Versions on my machine:

# ssh -V →
OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-4, OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012

#dpkg -l|grep stunn →
ii  stunnel4                              3:4.52-1

mew-version-show →
Mew version 6.4

emacs-version →
GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of 2012-03-21 on trouble, modified by Debian

Is there a way to debug this very unusual behaviour?

i tried "M-x mew-debug" but there is no such a command, i think this worked before.  "M-x set-variable →
mew-debug" is also not working.  strange.

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Harald Hanche-Olsen | 22 Mar 2012 16:32

[mew-int 3055] Re: stunnel4 vs. mew 6.4

[maxigas <maxigas <at> anargeek.net> (2012-03-22 13:35:36 UTC)]

> i tried "M-x mew-debug" but there is no such a command, i think this worked before.  "M-x set-variable →
mew-debug" is also not working.  strange.

You have to evaluate (setq mew-debug t) which turns on all sorts of debugging. There is a docstring
specifying other usable values. Debug output appears in a special buffer, named *Mew debug* if I recall correctly.

- Harald

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Tatsuya Kinoshita | 23 Mar 2012 00:24

[mew-int 3056] Re: stunnel4 vs. mew 6.4

On March 22, 2012, [mew-int 3054],
maxigas (at anargeek.net) wrote:

> After a recent upgrade on wheezy (= debian testing) mew started to behave in a very funny way:
> 
> POP3/SMTP connection with SSL to the mailserver works only every second time!
[...]
> ii  stunnel4                              3:4.52-1
> 
> mew-version-show →
> Mew version 6.4

I believe this bug is fixed in the Debian package mew 1:6.4-1.
(patch from Mew 6.4.50)

If the problem still exists, please tell the *Mew debug* info as
Harald suggested.

Also, confirm that you use the Debian packaged version or not.

  (locate-library "mew-ssl")
  "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/mew/mew-ssl.elc"

Thanks,
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-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita