Re: [Evolution] Evolution stopped retrieving mail via ssl

[Andreas Wüst <awuest swissonline ch>]

Hi Jeffrey

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 22:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> 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?

Well, if you ignore it by default, I think you could aswell just throw
the whole certificate code out..

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

Ahh yes, at least a bit of a relief.. ;) But hey, I didn't say I want it
to be ignored by default, I just want to know why it isn't working, and
hoped that you could give me some hints where to look for.

> >  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?

We've got 2003 now, no? So I think the clock is ok, or did I just miss
one year?? I mean, well, I've slept quite much during the past few days,
but one whole year..

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Best wishes,
Andi