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Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> writes: |
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> On Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:53:39 PM lee wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> since quite a while, seamonkey and its relatives are completely broken |
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>> when it comes to use self-signed certificates. They just refuse the |
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>> connection to the server, blocking you from accessing your email. |
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>> Is there still no solution for this problem? I'm totally fed up with it |
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>> by now. At work, I have frozen seamonkey at version 2.31 and |
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>> thunderbird at some outdated version that still works with the |
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>> certificates. Googling for a solution doesn't reveal one, either. |
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>> Now I need seamonkey to access the email, and I can't very well turn it |
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>> back to an outdated version just for that. |
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>> BTW, if this won't be fixed, what are the replacements? |
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> This[1] is for firefox but should work similarly. Scroll all the way down to |
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> "bypassing the warning". There's also an about:config option, I *think* it's |
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> this one[2]. |
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Thank you. The problem is that it doesn't let me add an exception. Only |
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the older versions do that. All options to add an exception are |
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disabled. |
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There is 'browser.ssl_override_behavior', the value of which is |
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2. Guessing by what that means from [2], that should allow me to add an |
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exception. |
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'browser.xul.error_pages.enabled' is enabled. There's also |
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'browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert', which is disabled. Let's see |
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what that does ... still cannot add an exception when I enable it. [3] |
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would indicate that it's advisable to set it to "true". |
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Restarting seamonkey after changing it doesn't help. |
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There's nothing wrong with the certificate, either. Older version work |
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just fine with it. Mutt works fine with it. Gnus works fine with it. |
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Evolution works fine with it. All of those are more recent than |
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seamonkey 2.31. |
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I could resort to unencrypted connections on the LAN to be able to |
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upgrade the browsers and MUAs --- for security reasons, ironically --- |
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but some ppl with laptops need to be able to connect from anywhere over |
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the internet. So omit all security and use VPN for those to make things |
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more secure by not using self-signed certificates but insecure |
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connections? |
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[3]: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert |
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> [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/connection-untrusted-error-message |
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> [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.ssl_override_behavior |
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-- |
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Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |
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