Hello Alexander, Monday, October 11, 2004, 10:52:52 PM, you wrote:
> There aren't other _good_ ways! Actually there are other good ways- I will believe you when you say they are not doctrinal ways- but would question that it is dictated that all secure pop/imap/smtp servers *must* include full chain when establishing SSL/TLS connections with clients. good practice, but not mandatory, right? for example, I have a small, run from a floppy, secure pop/smtp mailer I use on the road- and it brings up all the details on the first time a secure connection is made to pop or smtp server and forces you to view details, fingerprint of the cert, and permit the connection for that time or forever. It then makes an MD5 hash of the cert - and will alert if that info ever changes. and this info has changed, as was the case with both the us.army.mil and Cotse servers recently. That is what I am asking for. I don't want to be a mindless OE user- nor do I worry that I will ever get tricked by sites and email servers I trust. All I want is for TB! to allow the *user* to make the decision on whether to permanently allow server cert to be trusted- primarily as I check these email accounts often and TB! now can hang checking mail when I don't click Ok or cancel on that popup dialog box. I actually consider this a bug, certainly an annoyance that the most configurable and feature rich client around- even includes x-face and smileys now, couldn't tweak the code a bit to allow users to decide this. Thanks for the reply, hopefully it will draw the attention of the development team and it can be addressed on whether it is a valid and doable request. Until then I will just continue to mindlessly click the OK button and look at my neat smileys in messages that contain them. :) -- Most Sincerely, Army RedLeg running TheBat! Professional 3.0.1 (11OCT04 .msi) on heavily tweaked Win2ksp4 system ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.1 RC/7 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
