Bug#622917: checkgmail: Fails with "Error: 500 Can't connect to www.google.com:443 (Crypt-SSLeay can't verify hostnames)"

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Control: tags -1 +  unreproducible moreinfo
Control: rename -1 checkgmail: Fails with "Error: 500 Can't connect to www.google.com:443 (Crypt-SSLeay can't verify hostnames)"
Control: reassign -1 checkgmail
Control: found -1 1.13+svn43-2
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Hi Sandro

After some time giving back to checkgmail. See the whole arguing with
Jakub Wilk, in particular the last part then. The dependency chain of
checkgmail forces libio-socket-ssl-perl installation, so it is unclear
how reporter managed to trigger that.

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:54:16PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > >checkgmail Depends on libwww-perl for LWP::UserAgent, which on his
> > >turn depends on libnet-http-perl.
> > 
> > It's simpler than that. The Depends chain currently (both in wheezy
> > and unstable) is:
> > 
> > checkgmail -> libwww-perl -> liblwp-protocol-https-perl -> libio-socket-ssl-perl
> > 
> > Which makes me wonder how the submitter managed to trigger the bug
> > in the first place...
> 
> Yes this is strange. Wonder if PERL_NET_HTTPS_SSL_SOCKET_CLASS=Net::SSL
> was set in the environment before starting checkgmail? I haven't found
> another possiblity (yet) to force this error elsewise in a VM installing
> checkgmail.
> 
> It doesen't work elsewise to try to reproduce the user reported
> problem, as you pointed out removing libio-socket-ssl-perl will remove
> checkgmail too.

Regards,
Salvatore
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