Claws Mail uses GnuTLS...

Colin Leroy colin at colino.net
Fri Oct 10 20:47:55 CEST 2008


On 10 October 2008 at 19h10, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:

Hi, 

> About the certificate file that you mention, note that "trust" is a
> local issue outside the scope of gnutls. If I trust verisign does not
> mean you trust it too since you use gnutls. I'd understand some
> distributions adding some trusted CA list under some specific criteria
> and gnutls could work with that.

Yes, that's what I meant -- users expect the MUA to display the same
status as Firefox would, for example :)

> However you can do it using the x.509 API though with the following
> (not very efficient) procedure:
> [snip]

Thanks a bunch. It works very well. I don't know how I didn't figure it
out :)

-- 
Colin





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