Re: s_client from OpenSSL <= 0.9.2b isn't good, either.

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au> writes:

>  I'm not sure if this is the same problem you had with SSLeay 0.9.x,
>  but if not then it might be worth mentioning on the web pages -
>  having just got Cyrus (with stunnel) going, I found nnimap would hang
>  there waiting for the last few bytes of headers, but only when using
>  SSL (I had OpenSSL 0.9.2b installed) - the ChangeLog for OpenSSL
>  0.9.2b -> 0.9.3 mentioned :
> 
>     Bugfix: s_client occasionally would sleep in select() when
>      it should have checked SSL_pending() first.
>      [Bodo Moeller]
> 
>  so I took the punt and upgraded, and it fixed it :)

Did you try 0.8.x?  That was the only SSLeay-version I got to work. I
guess the bug was introduced with SSLeay 0.9.0 or so.

I've updated the "known problems" page to say you should get OpenSSL
0.9.3 or later instead of just OpenSSL, thanks.