Re: [Evolution] x509 Certificate Verification

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Evolution doesn't yet support STARTTLS.

Jeff

On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 16:29, James Morton wrote:
> Sweet:)  One last thing.  When sending mail through SMTP w/ SSL,
> Evolution seems to connect to SSMTP immidiately.  Isn't the standard
> behavior to connect to SMTP, and do a "STARTTLS" command?  Also not
> really a big deal, as I can just run stunnel or something, but Postfix
> doesn't seem to like that very much.
>
> - James
>
> On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 10:25, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Also handled by NSS. You should have a utility that comes with nss
> > called certutil for adding/modifying your certificate database.
> >
> > Btw, the Evolution certificate db is in ~/evolution.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 15:56, James Morton wrote:
> > > Oh well, only a minor inconvenience.  Does Evolution have a list of CA's
> > > somewhere, or is that also handled by NSS?
> > >
> > >  - James
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 09:56, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > We can't display that extra bit of information because the library
> > > > itself doesn't tell us. Evolution is in the dark just as much as you
> > > > are.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 15:29, James Morton wrote:
> > > > > Hey,
> > > > >       When Evolution fails to verify a certificate's authenticity, it
> > > > > displays a generic "Failed to verify" message, but it would be much more
> > > > > helpful if it were a bit more verbose about why it failed.  In my case,
> > > > > I'm using a self-signed certificate for TLS w/ Postfix & Courier IMAP.
> > > > > It would be helpful if Evolution had a certificate import function, a la
> > > > > Netscape Messenger(Where you can specify whether to keep the
> > > > > certificate, etc).  Actually, a utility to import external CA
> > > > > certificates would be even better, but not a necessity:)
> > > > >
> > > > >  - James
> > > > >
> > > > >
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