Re: [Evolution-hackers] [PATCH] Fix OpenSSL certificate validation in Evolution (1.4.4 and 1.4.6)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 17:03 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I spent most of today trying to figure out why Evolution would report
> "Unable to get issuer's certificate locally" when trying to access our
> IMAP server.  This has been a long standing problem for us here at the
> University of Cambridge, UK.  Google revealed that this is a commonly
> encountered problem and at least one Evolution developer boldly stated
> that "it is not Evolution's problem, it must be OpenSSL or other bug"
> but I am afraid it is an Evolution bug after all.

OpenSSL isn't a supported means of using SSL in Evolution.

But i don't see why the patch can't go in pending a comment from Jeff (who's on leave this week).  We'll only put it in evolution 1.5 though.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer