From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: smtpmail: accept untrusted certificates?
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:19:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsc7k0o5.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8663jxdgze.fsf@lifelogs.com>
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:55:49 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:35:57 +0100 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> SB> When I opened this email account with Kmail (the KDE mail program), it
> SB> told me the certificate is untrusted, but allowed me to accept it
> SB> anyway. Is this also possible with smtpmail.el (or I suppose with the
> SB> program it uses, gnutls-cli), and if so, how?
>
> % gnutls-cli -h
> GNU TLS test client
> Usage: gnutls-cli [options] hostname
>
> ...
> --insecure Don't abort program if server
> certificate can't be validated.
> ...
>
> To do it as an customization, do
>
> M-x customize-variable starttls-extra-arguments
>
> and just add "--insecure".
>
> Ted
Thanks! (I had read the gnutls-cli man page but it does not mention
--insecure :-( I didn't think to look at the command line help.)
--
Steve Berman
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-03 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-22 12:38 Stephen Berman
2009-01-29 18:35 ` Stephen Berman
2009-01-29 19:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 15:19 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
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