Re: IMAP certificate warning

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcormail de>]

Am 08.11.2001 15:09:48 schrieb(en) Carlos Morgado:
> actually, we go through the cert check functions, and where mutt would ask
> the user 'what do you want to do now' we just put out that error and get
> on with it.
> the error message is a bit misleading, it doesn't mean the cert is invalid,
> it means we couldn't verify it.  that may happen cause we don't know the
> signers key or somesuch. i'll have to check into this a bit harder, stare
> down my openssl config and try to get some clue.
> 
> brian, do you have any insight into all this openssl and cert checking
> thing ? --

There are several nice examples for OpenSSL usage at the following location 
(I used them to learn using libssl...): http://www.rtfm.com/openssl-examples/

However, I think this is not the complete solution. As you already pointed 
out, libmutt used to check the cert. What we need at this point is some 
dialog to present the certificate data to the user and ask him/her to either 
accept or reject it. Obviously, this can not be done inside libmutt, so IMHO 
this breaks the current structure.

Cheers, Albrecht.

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