[tpop3d-discuss] tpop3d 1.5.1pre2 (with TLS support)

Ben Schumacher ben at blahr.com
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:17:20 -0700


Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:10:15PM -0700, Ben Schumacher wrote:
> 
>>Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> 
> 
>>| That's wierd. I don't fully understand the TLS stuff. With
>>| Outlook Express, I can download messages fine (though it's
>>| a bit slow). With Mozilla, it works most of the time, but
>>| sometimes gives me a `bad write retry' error. I don't see
>>| why this should happen, since I think I got the TLS state
>>| machine right. What a pain....
>>
>>I'll take a look at it later today, Chris. I have a pretty good grasp of
>>how TLS stuff works, so I might be able to come up with something. I'll
>>let you know if I come up with something useful.
> 
> Excellent. Is there a good reference somewhere? I've been
> using the Eric Rescorla tutorial, but it's not the best
> documentation I've ever read....

Not really. I grabbed the O'Reilly SSL book. And I've had a lot of 
experience debugging issues when they come up. Sort of gives you an 
organic knowledge base.

Cheers,

bs.