Bug 151107

Summary:	Poor notification of error when self-signed certificate of IMAP server changed
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Cliff Dugal <cliff.dugal>
Component:	IMAP	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Cliff Dugal 2007-10-20 19:44:53 UTC

Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.5.7, compiled sources)
Compiler:          Target: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv

I upgraded to Mandriva 2008.0 a few day ago. During the upgrade, the self-signed SSL certificate for Courier IMAP got regenerated (unbeknownst to me).

Following this, I kept on getting "Starting TLS failed" messages pop up from kmail. No other helpful information was given, which was quite frustrating. I didn't even know which IMAP acount was causing the problem.

It turned out that when I finally went to the account setup, and clicked the "Check What the Server Supports", an SSL warning dialogue popped up, asking me if I wanted to accept the certificate permanently, etc. One that was selected, everything worked as expected.

It would have been much more helpful if the SSL warning dialogue had popped up upon discovery of the problem, instead of a generic "Starting TLS failed" message.

Comment 1 Björn Ruberg 2010-01-11 00:47:22 UTC

For me that happens with my university accounts from time to time - and the notification is helpful. THink this has been fixed in kmail. Please report, if you think otherwise