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On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 23:41:55 +0200 Mickaël Bucas <mbucas@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2015-04-01 19:19 GMT+02:00 Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>: |
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Correction: |
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This question does *not* specifically relates to Gentoo distribution |
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> > but, as far as I have not subscribed to any other mailing list, |
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> > I dare to ask it here. |
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> > So, I am using Claws Mail that downloads e-mails from several |
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> > google mail accounts (all are mine :) and about once or twice |
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> > in a month get into the situation when Claws asks me to verify |
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> > and change the google certificates, first in one direction and |
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> > soon after that (usually during the next downloading of my e-mails) |
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> > - in another. |
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Actually it does it for every gmail account and at different times. |
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So, yesterday, I "veryfied" google certificates *a lot* of times. |
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> > The situation is illustrated by the 2 message screenshots that are |
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> > attached to this e-mail. |
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> > The strange thing for me is that, first, the Claws asks me to verify |
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> > and accept a newer certificate complaing that the old one is in some |
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> > aspect "bad", and soon after that it complains about a newer certificate |
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> > and asks me to verify and and accept the older one. |
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> > I suspect that it is google that makes something wrong here. |
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> > What do you think? |
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> Hi Gevisz |
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> I had a similar behavior with another tools : offlineimap |
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> It seems that Google changes certificates very often and/or uses |
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> different certificates on different connections |
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Probably, but why they do it? |
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> For offlineimap, the solution is to use an option to check certificates : |
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> sslcacertfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt |
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> Maybe there is an option to do the same in Claws Mail. |
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> I found "Bug 2199 - Claws doesn't propery verify certification chain" |
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> [1] which affected a GMail user. |
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> It's fixed, so you may find what's been done. |
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> Best regards |
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> Mickaël Bucas |
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> [1] http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2199 |
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Thank you for the link. I will study it later, in the evening. |
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