win32 – Diary of an Emacs tragic https://emacstragic.net Jason Lewis Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:11:23 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://emacstragic.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-jason-lewis-profile-picture-square-150x150.jpg win32 – Diary of an Emacs tragic https://emacstragic.net 32 32 38469313 gnus, imap and gnutls in win32 https://emacstragic.net/uncategorized/gnus-in-win32/ https://emacstragic.net/uncategorized/gnus-in-win32/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:11:23 +0000 http://emacstragic.net/?p=226 I’ve been trying to get gnus working in emacs in win32 for the past few days. There were a number of obstacles to overcome:

  1. Install gnutls
  2. The gnus README.w32 says gnutls should be installed and in the path. I found that it must be in the windows system path to make it work. Setting the path within emacs was not good enough. So add C:\Program Files (x86)\gnutls\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\gnutls\lib to your system path by going to Start/Edit System Environment Variables then click Environment Variables and edit Path in System Variables
  3. you need to edit the emacs variable gnutls-trustfiles to point to windows paths to .crt files. by default it had paths to unix locations. The only way I could find to get these files was to install cygwin and then make gnutls-trustfiles equal to ("C:/cygwin/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt" "C:/cygwin/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt")

Unfortunately these last two steps were not obvious to me and it took me quite some time to work through them.
Tip: if you need to debug gnutls, try setting (setq gnutls-log-level 50).
Now all I need to do is learn gnus!

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