[CentOS] Thunderbird in CentOS 7.4
Phil Perry
pperry at elrepo.org
Thu Sep 28 06:14:26 UTC 2017
On 28/09/17 04:19, Alice Wonder wrote:
> With the current Thunderbird I can not connect to one of my IMAP servers
> that uses a self-signed cert. Virtually identical IMAP servers that use
> CA signed certs work
>
> I was a bit out of date when I updated to 7.4 and was running
> Thunderbird 45.6.x and it worked.
>
> When I connected from evolution (which I do not like) it worked.
>
> When I connected with my laptop still running 45.6.x it works.
>
> so - I rebuilt thunderbird 45.8.0 from 7.3 updates (newest that isn't
> 5x.x.x series) and did an --oldpackage update with RPM and it works again.
>
> When rebuilding the old thunderbird in mock I had to add the following:
>
> BuildRequires: dbus-glib-devel
>
> Either the build system used by CentOS automatically includes that, or a
> build dependency use to pull that it but no longer does.
>
> Anyway if anyone is having a similar problem, that's a solution.
>
> -=-
>
> This is what I see in the mail server log when current CentOS
> thunderbird tries to connect:
>
> Sep 25 20:17:49 librelamp dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth
> attempts in 1 secs): user=<>,
> rip=2600:1010:b064:f260:e83e:562d:2316:18df,
> lip=2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fee4:310c, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept()
> failed: error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown
> ca: SSL alert number 48, session=<u7agQAlasK8mABAQsGTyYOg+Vi0jFhjf>
>
> ---
>
> Since it works with current evolution and with older thunderbird, I
> assume it is a bug in current thunderbird when the server is using a
> self-signed cert.
>
> Don't know if same thing happens on pop.
>
> I use IMAP on 143 using starttls
I have no problem using a self-signed cert on my own private mail
server, although admittedly I'm using POP, not IMAP.
Have you imported your certificate(s) in thunderbird?
Preferences > Advanced > Certificates
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