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Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?



On Thursday 20 August 2015 07:53:33 Joel Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > They apparently did something just before 15:00 local time (GMT-4=EDT
> > today, as both mailfilter and fetchmail are now reporting a password
> > authorization failure.
> > 
> > Thats two separate config files, neither of which has been into an editor
> > to even change the size of the top dot of an i in about 2 years.
> > 
> > So, is it me, or has gmail changed the protocol somehow?
> 
> Any chance it's the old problem with Google's chain to a root CA?

Could you elaborate on this problem?

Kmail just popped a warning this morning about an invalid google certificate. 
Kmail claims that "the root certificate is not valid for that purpose" 
(whatever that means)…

I would like to know how to make sure whether it is safe to accept the 
certificate or not.

My employer's gateway may be providing a fake certificate to monitor the SSL 
communication but I don't know how to tell if the certificate was rewritten by 
the legitimate gateway or by a rogue third party or if google messed up.

Thanks,

Frederic


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