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Re: [trinity-users] Re: kMail certificate

From: Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@...>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:03:56 -0600
On Monday 25 February 2013 17:49:14 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I think you missed the point Dep is making.
>
> The *actual* problem is that when KMail comes across a broken certificate,
> and you tell it "Remember this one is okay forever", it *does not* remember
> that it is okay forever.
>
> Telling KMail "never check the certificates" does not solve the
> problem, since that stops KMail from complaining *at all*. It completely
> breaks when you have a situation like this:
>
> - Site X certificate is broken, and I trust it forever;
> - Site Y certificate is broken, but I only trust it this one time;
> - I don't trust site Z at all unless the certificate is valid.
	No, as I stated in my first post, I realize that this is not the proper way 
to fix the issue, but since I've never seen a fix in all the years of using 
kMail3, I took it upon myself to at least reduce the aggravation, with an 
admittedly lousy solution.