[mew-int 2813] Re: Connection refused when installing from source

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

On February 5, 2010, [mew-int 2812],
diogosegura (at yahoo.com.br) wrote:

> I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and when I install Mew from the repositories --
> either version 6.2 or 6.2.51 -- or the 6.3 debian package from sid I
> can retrieve my e-mail using IMAP but, when I try installing and using
> the sources from either the stable 6.3 from mew.org or the git one I
> receive this message as soon as Mew starts or I try to "s" my e-mails:
> 
>  open-network-stream: make client process failed: conexão recusada,
>  :name,  *Mew dummy*, :buffer, nil, :host, 127.0.0.1, :service, 8155
> 
> The "conexão recusada" is in Portuguese and it's translated to
> "connection refused".

Probably, the problem is caused with SSL/TLS.  Install the packages
stunnel4 and ca-certificates, and put the following in your ~/.emacs.

(setq mew-prog-ssl "stunnel4") ;; prefer stunnel4 to stunnel
(setq mew-ssl-cert-directory "/etc/ssl/certs") ;; use ca-certificates
(setq mew-ssl-verify-level 2) ;; verify certificates

The Ubuntu/Debian packages are configured as above by default.  The
configuration file is placed in /etc/emacs/site-start.d.

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita