[sylpheed:30695] Re: self-signed certificate for pop3s/smtps

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:35:18 -0200
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez at wait4.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:56:19 +0900
> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> > > Get the root certificate of the server and incorporate it in
> > > Sylpheed's cert.crt. I did it the following way - visit
> > > https://server, install the certificate in browser, then export
> > > it as a file and copy/paste to cert.crt. It works fine (ofcourse
> > > only if the mail and web server use the same certificate)
> > 
> > The file name is either one of ca-certificates.crt, ca-bundle.crt,
> > or certs.crt. Put it into ~/.sylpheed-2.0/ (in Unix).
> 
> No luck yet.  I used Milan's tip to get the certificates, as the one
> via https is different from smtps and pop3s.
> 
> I saw Sylpheed complaining about certs not being a directory or not
> existant; so I created it and put the certs.crt file there.  Didn't
> work, too.
> 
> Any way of getting more verbosity about the certificate file (ie, if
> Sylpheed scanned the file and didn't find any that matched, or didn't
> liked the format of the file, or anything else)?

Run sylpheed with --debug option, and check the debug message.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>