[Users] Gmail secure certificates

edwardp at gmx.com edwardp at gmx.com
Sat Sep 26 16:56:07 CEST 2020


On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 10:35:10 -0400
Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> edwardp at gmx.com wrote:
>
> >Since adding a Gmail account to Claws Mail, I've been almost
> >constantly prompted to accept new secure certificates from Gmail's
> >IMAP and SMTP servers, almost at every polling occurrence.
>
> I've seen that sort of thing. Google seems to be certificate-happy
> sometimes. If you'd rather not have to manually deal with those, you
> can open the "Configuration" menu, choose "Edit accounts..." from the
> menu, open the Gmail account, go to the SSL tab, and put a check in
> the box for "Automatically accept valid SSL certificates" to set
> Claws Mail to take care of them invisibly from then on.

Excellent tip! Thank you.

It does seem odd that it would want to send a certificate with an
earlier expiration date than the current...


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