[CentOS] Thunderbird in CentOS 7.4

Thu Sep 28 06:14:26 UTC 2017
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

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 I was a bit out of date when I updated to 7.4 and was running 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