[sylpheed:31883] Re: SSL certificate verify failed

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:12:55 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> Copied and pasted from Help > About:
> Sylpheed version 2.4.5, GTK+ 2.12.0 / GLib 2.14.1, Operating System:
> Linux 2.6.22-14-generic (x86_64), Compiled-in features: IPv6 iconv
> compface GnuPG OpenSSL LDAP JPilot GtkSpell. 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I have used Sylpheed since Ubuntu Hoary amd64 over two years ago. I
> recently bought a new computer, installed Gutsy amd64 as a fresh
> install, installed the current version of Sylpheed from Synaptic
> (2.4.5), copied my entire ~/ folder, and got it working the same as it
> was before. I had an issue with it not finding the mailboxes, but
> thanks to recent help here I have that sorted and all is well.
> 
> However, I have another problem. I am a graduate student at Portland
> State University. While on campus I cannot send e-mail unless I send
> it through mailhost.pdxd.edu. This is no problem, and it works from
> other locations as well, including home where I have a cable
> connection. However, after installing the fresh version of Gutsy and
> Sylpheed, every time I go to send mail I get a popup saying "SSL
> certificate verify failed." This message pops up the first time I try
> sending mail after restarting the computer. I can click on OK to
> accept the certificate, and it sends the mail fine. Afterwards the
> message no longer pops up when sending mail until I restart the
> computer again.
> 
> While at the university yesterday the Linux help desk people tried
> valiantly to make the message go away, but we couldn't find a setting
> that fixed it. The problem is only an annoyance. Still, it never used
> to happen, so something changed during the fresh install that didn't
> get copied over when I copied my ~/ folder to the new computer
> (including the Sylpheed configuration files).
> 
> Any suggestions?

If ca-certificates package is not installed, please install it.
Sylpheed uses the certificates if available. If the server certificate
is private one, locally install it (~/.sylpheed-2.0/certs/).

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