Re: [Evolution] Evolution stopped retrieving mail via ssl

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 15:58, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey
>
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:44, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>
> > and did you click "OK" to accept it anyway? the cert is most assuredly
> > bad. there's no doubt in my mind.
>
> Well, if I click OK it gets accepted and mail retrieval works of course,
> but I think that's not the point of having a certificate and when being
> told that it got a bad sig just to accept it anyway.

Well, I'll most certainly agree with that statement, but which is worse?
having evo ignore the fact that it is a bad certificate? or pop up a
dialog prompting the user about continuing anyway?

I have to say that coding evo to ignore bad certs altogether is far
worse than what you are complaining about :-)

>  I just can't
> imagine that they would let slip in a bad or expired certificate (for
> several weeks!) since it's a 10'000+ users site.

is your system clock incorrectly set? like maybe set a year or more
ahead?

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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