[sylpheed:31820] Re: Irregular hangs, after enabling certificates

[Celejar]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:14:57 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:09:00 -0400
> Celejar <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:35:24 -0300
> > John Coppens <john at jcoppens.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:04:16 -0400
> > > Celejar <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I use Sylpheed with Gmail POP without any errors.  What Thawte
> > > > certificates are you referring to?  I don't recall installing any.
> > > > Which Sylpheed menu option does this?
> > > 
> > > On startup, when connecting for the first time with gmail.com,
> > > sylpheed shows a dialog to confirm if you want to continue. After
> > > confirming, you can then check mail without problem till the next
> > > time you run sylpheed.
> > 
> > Could be, I don't recall whether I ever had to do this.  I certainly
> > haven't had to do it for quite some time.
> > 
> > > If you want to avoid the initial dialog, you can follow the
> > > procedure documented on this page:
> > > 
> > > http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/sylpheed-gmail/index.html
> > > 
> > > It is possible that your distribution installed these certificates
> > > automatically, but someone installing sylpheed will need them.
> > 
> > I've read the page.  I have no ~/.sylpheed-2.0/certs directory at all.
> > I'm running Debian Sid:
> > 
> > $ aptitude search certificates
> > i   ca-certificates                 - Common CA Certificates PEM files
> 
> In Debian, Sylpheed automaticaly uses CA certificates in /etc/ssl/certs.
> So you don't have to do anything other than installing ca-certificates
> package.
> 
> Currently the following directories are searched:
>   ~/.sylpheed-2.0/certs
>   /etc/ssl/certs
>   /etc/ssl
>   /etc
> 
> and if any of the following files are found in the directories, it will
> be used:
>   ca-certificates.crt
>   ca-bundle.crt
>   ca-root.crt
>   certs.crt

Thanks for the explanation; apparently the Thawte and Equifax certs are
among the Mozilla builtins.

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

Celejar
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