[gnutls-dev] gnutls 1.7.17 and greater do not work with mutt anymore

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This is <http://bugs.debian.org/439640>.
>
> gnutls 1.7.17 broke mutt's usage of Gnutls. It is easy to reproduce,
> just use
>
> mutt -R -f imaps://imap.gmx.net/INBOX
>
> and choose accept (o)nce on the Certificate check.
>
> The patch below seems to have *triggered* it, reverting it makes
> 1.7.1[78] work. The 1mio$question is probably what causes an unknown
> error (code seems to be 21) in the first place.

Thanks for investigating, I'll see if I can reproduce it and debug it
further later today.

/Simon

> 2007-08-10  Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
>
>    * lib/gnutls_errors.c: (gnutls_error_is_fatal): Return default is 1 for
>      unknown error codes.
> ---------------------------
> --- gnutls-1.7.16/lib/gnutls_errors.c   2007-05-25 15:04:22.000000000 +0200
> +++ gnutls-1.7.17/lib/gnutls_errors.c   2007-08-10 15:51:07.000000000 +0200
> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@
>  int
>  gnutls_error_is_fatal (int error)
>  {
> -  int ret = 0;
> +  int ret = 1;
>  
>    GNUTLS_ERROR_ALG_LOOP (ret = p->fatal);
>    return ret;
> ---------------------------
> cu andreas
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