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.