[mew-int 2525] Re: stunnel on Debian/Ubuntu

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

On June 26, 2008, [mew-int 2524],
kazu (at iij.ad.jp) wrote:

> If you want to use SSL on Debian/Ubuntu, the following configuration
> is necessary.
>
> 	(setq mew-prog-ssl "/usr/bin/stunnel4")
>
> "stunnel" on Debian/Ubuntu is a Perl script which converts stunnel 3's
> command line options to stunnel 4's configuration file. The Perl
> script does not tell its version (3 or 4) to Mew, so we need to
> specify the true body of stunnel.

For Debian/Ubuntu mew package, mew-prog-ssl is set to "mewstunnel"
in the startup file /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mew.el.  "mewstunnel"
is a wrapper script which prefers "stunnel4" over "stunnel" by default.

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita