[Users] [Bug 4568] New: Auto-accept updates of SSL certificates if valid and from same CA

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Mark Raynsford wrote:

>Apologies for resurrecting a dead thread, but I have to disagree with
>this. I went looking for an existing bug, because I have a couple of
>GMail accounts and I run into this dialog box popping up several
>times a day.

I was, too.

>I think what happens is that Google serves different SSL certificates
>depending on which internal server you end up hitting based on some
>kind of load balancing. Between two Gmail accounts, I'm effectively
>repeatedly bombarded with "The certificate has changed. Do you want 
>to accept the new certificate?", where the two certificates presented
>differ by a couple of insignificant fields.

This was also what I received.

>I have selected "Automatically accept valid TLS certificates" on
>both accounts, but I seem to be asked to accept them repeatedly
>anyway.

That setting solved it for me completely a long time ago and I haven't
been bothered by them again ever since even after upgrading to Claws
Mail 4.0.0. Have you tried toggling that setting off and on again?
Maybe something misfired the first time around.

-- 
Little Girl

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