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I use lenny and in some updates I did today there was an update for openssl and libssl. Also, there were evolution updates within the last few days. I have a gmail account and I use evolution to keep track of my email, etc. Today when I tried to check my email through evolution I got this error in a pop up dialog:
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Could not connect to pop.gmail.com: SSL unavailable
The unfortunate thing is that I'm not using the standard lenny kernel, I'm using one I built myself, 2.6.24-rc8. I don't know if that factors into the whole thing at all. Is anyone else having trouble with ssl, or with evolution? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. PS, I checked my firewall and I don't think that's it.
Is this an evolution message on one from gmail? Did you use ssl with evolution previously? It can be built with or without ssl support. Were the Mozilla NSPR/NSS libraries also updated? These are used for ssl support.
Look in /etc/ssl/ and see if there is a new config file supplied with the update. It may be called openssl.cnf.new or your old one may be openssl.cnf.bu or openssl.cnf.old. You may need to compare the two and supply some information from your old one.
It's an evolution message, and I've used this 'pop.gmail.com' server as recently as a few days ago. When I go to evolution's preferences and I edit my gmail 'incoming mail' account, I can see options for SSL encryption. Would that be there if SSL wasn't built into evolution? In /etc/ssl there's a copy of openssl.cnf but not another called openssl.cnf.old or anything like that. Does anybody have a copy of openssl.cnf that I can look at?
I could swear I used this yesterday before the openssl update and it worked fine, but looking at the evolution bug page on the debian site, there's a bug from today called #462959 that describes my problem. If anybody has any ideas I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
EDIT: maybe I'll wait for evolution-data-server and evolution-data-server-common...
Look in the README file for openssl and evolution. There is a mention of a couple of mozilla packages that evolution uses for ssl. I'm not at home right now so I can't look it up. Search for a mention of mozilla-nss. That is what Evolution uses for ssl support.
This makes me wonder about the testing and release procedures. You would think that sending a message from an email client would be high on the checklist.
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