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Re: [trinity-users] kmail, imap, ssl issue

From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@...>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 22:01:51 -0400
On Wednesday 07 October 2015 19:59:48 Archives SCC Area02 wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 September 2015 07:04:14 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> > Trying to setup a clients new email. The new client is imap,
> > user/passwd and ssl port 993 recieving and 465 sending mails. The
> > sending works fine, the receiving says it is checking account  xxx
> > for new mail but that is far as it goes. No error messages popup.
> >
> > Never used ssl/tls before do not know where to look for error
> > mressages.
> >
> > Searched the trinity user archives, not much mention of imap/ssl.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> "Bug 1287 - kmail does not honor the "Forever" option when accepting
> ssl certificates"
>
>
> I found this bug, Bug 1287,. It started in 2012 and has been reopened,
> most recent comment #18, Kristopher, 8/28/2015. This looks similar to
> what I am experiencing.
>
> I do not get pop-up dialogs about the certificate. My error message is
> a time out connection error..silently failing.
>
> Google suggests kmail in kde 3.5.x had issues with retreiving mail
> with ssl. This has been fixed in KDE4's Kmail.

Not a problem here, I farmed that out to fetchmail 7 or 8 years ago

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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