Bug#250801: aeromail: non-obvious certificate validation failure
Package: aeromail
Version: 1.45-1.2
Severity: important
Hi,
If you install the latest version of uw-imapd in testing it creates a
self-signed SSL certificate. When you try to login to this IMAP
server using Aeromail it tries to authenticate the certificate (even
with non-SSL connections) and fails. But it doesn't produce *any*
output mentioning this fact, all you get is exactly the same behaviour
as if you'd entered an incorrect password.
The PHP function imap_last_error() does return a message indicating
this ("Certificate failure for localhost: self signed certificate:
/O=University of Washington IMAP
daemon/OU=delysid/CN=delysid.bltc.net/emailAddress=root@bltc.net"),
but that's not being treated any differently by Aeromail to "Can not
authenticate to IMAP server: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failed".
It would help people track down problems if Aeromail differentiated
between error messages and/or passed them back to the user.
Cheers,
Mark
PS. I mistakenly filed bug #250389 first before tracking down the
true nature of this bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages aeromail depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.25 Debian configuration management sy
ii php4 4:4.3.4-4 A server-side, HTML-embedded scrip
ii php4-imap 4:4.3.4-4 IMAP module for php4
-- debconf information excluded
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