Hello Vili,

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:50:28 -0400 GMT (28/Sep/10, 0:50 AM +0700 GMT),
Vili wrote:



>> VŠ> Bad  cert  is  not The Bat!'s fault. And providing an option to bypass
>> VŠ> that, is a security risk as explained numerious times on this list.
>> Right. So I'll lose the customer because TB! doesn't allow me to
>> override the security issue.
>> You must be quite unaware of business reality to say something like
>> this. To tell you the truth: It needs to be *my* decision whether I
>> accept an unsecure cert. Anything else will make me look for another
>> email client, this nannying is just not acceptable.

V> I totally agree with Thomas. TB is not user friendly when reporting
V> errors, warnings. The error should be put into the face of the user,
V> suggest him a solution and allow him to bypass this kind of
V> certificate security issues if he wishes. I had customers who had the
V> same error. Not fun to explain them that "believe me, it is for your
V> own good that you cant send emails".

Thanks for your support and making it clearer from your experience
that what I say is not only theory.

V> We can start an academic discussion about it. At the end what matters
V> is the result. Can or cant I send an email. Everything else is just
V> waste of time. You dont want to hear the details about all parts of
V> your car, it should just run.

ACK.

I think everything has been said and it is now up to Ritlabs to decide
whether they want TB! to be successfull in the future. There is a lot
more competition out there than there was when they started.

-- 

Cheers,
Thomas.

http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/

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