SSL stuff in description -- red herring?

[era]

I am running Gnus against several SSL IMAP servers here without w3m-el-e21 without problems. I guess the package description is out of date.

vnix$ dlocate -s gnus | tail -5
 A note for people using the nnimap backend: SSL support requires w3-el-e2X; and even otherwise w3-el makes following hyperlinks in mail and news easier . The upstream sources for this package are available at http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz

(The final sentence should probably be a separate paragraph, too.)

vnix$ dlocate -l gnus w3-
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-==============================================
ii gnus 5.10.6-1.NO.20 A versatile News and mailing list reader for E
ii gnus-bonus-el 26.4-1 Miscellaneous add-ons for Gnus
un semi-gnus <none> (no description available)
un t-gnus <none> (no description available)
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-==============================================
un w3-el <none> (no description available)
un w3-el-e21 <none> (no description available)

My primary work mail account is an Exchange (yuck) box served over IMAPS and MAPI only, and I have a number of secondary imaps boxes on Dovecot and messagingengine.com (not sure what they are using, Cyrus?)

M-x list-processes includes this:

Proc Status Buffer Tty Command
---- ------ ------ --- -------
imap run *nnimap* work (none) /bin/bash -c openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect imapsserver:993

M-x describe-variable ssl-program-name returns "openssl"

[era (era)]

Hello?

It is still the case that SSL appears to work fine without w3-el (... thank goodness)

... But it also appears that the package description has changed (in Dapper already, in fact) and no longer includes the passage I was complaining about.

[era (era)]

Didn't know I could close this myself. Oh well.