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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: tls-program
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:25:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iq21zzqy.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd62pdn8.fsf@rimspace.net>

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> I would be inclined to do that, from a UI point of view, but it is rather
> nasty.  A better approach might be to force them explicitly to secure[1],
> detect the appropriate warnings, and either prompt the user, or educate them
> about what has to happen?

Well, if having invalid certificates is really common on IMAP servers,
then annoying them with this would be...  annoying.

Does anybody know what (say) Thunderbird does in these instances?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-19 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-18 22:29 tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 22:44 ` tls-program Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-18 22:46 ` tls-program Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 22:51   ` tls-program Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 22:58   ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 23:05     ` tls-program Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 23:47       ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19  4:20         ` tls-program Daniel Pittman
2010-09-19 12:25           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-09-19 13:21             ` tls-program Steinar Bang
2010-09-19 13:27               ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 17:42                 ` tls-program David Engster
2010-09-19 17:47                   ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-20 14:53                     ` tls-program Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-21 16:11                       ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 15:48             ` tls-program Frank Schmitt
2010-09-19 15:58               ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19  8:48         ` tls-program Tibor Simko
2010-09-19 12:28           ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 12:29             ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 19:17         ` tls-program James Cloos
2010-09-19 19:15     ` tls-program James Cloos
2010-09-19 19:21       ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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