From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68238 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smtpmail: accept untrusted certificates? Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:19:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87wsc7k0o5.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <874ozrqzwk.fsf@escher.local.home> <87fxj2c642.fsf@escher.local.home> <8663jxdgze.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233674505 2059 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2009 15:21:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:21:45 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16679@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 03 16:22:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUN6n-0003HA-TT for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:22:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LUN4S-0001Lm-7V; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:20:16 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LUN4Q-0001LV-GE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:20:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LUN4N-0000z1-EK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:20:14 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LUN4g-00028a-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:20:30 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUN4H-0005AK-BS for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: from i59f556d0.versanet.de ([89.245.86.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f556d0.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:20:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f556d0.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68238 Archived-At: On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:55:49 -0600 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:35:57 +0100 Stephen Berman 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