Evolution importing certificates?

[Patrick]

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup a secure mail environment with Postfix, Dovecot and
Evolution using TLS & SMTP AUTH for sending and receiving email. Made
all the certificates and configs and seem to have it working mostly. The
problem is that Evolution requires me to accept the certificates each
time I start it up. I assume that I need to import one or more of the
certificates I made into Evolution. Anyone have an idea which ones?

Thanks and happy holidays!

Regards,
Patrick

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 20.12.2005 schrieb Patrick um 6:47:
> I'm trying to setup a secure mail environment with Postfix, Dovecot and
> Evolution using TLS & SMTP AUTH for sending and receiving email. Made
> all the certificates and configs and seem to have it working mostly. The
> problem is that Evolution requires me to accept the certificates each
> time I start it up. I assume that I need to import one or more of the
> certificates I made into Evolution. Anyone have an idea which ones?
> Patrick

To fix complaints (those are valid and reasonable complaints) about a
non trustful certificate authority which signed your custom self-signed
certificates you need to import the CA cert - be default named
cacert.pem.
If the client application(s) complain about non matching CN within the
presented server certificate, then you made something wrong during
certificate creation. The CN has to match the canonical name of the
service/host.

Alexander

[Patrick]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 10:51 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
[snip]
> To fix complaints (those are valid and reasonable complaints) about a
> non trustful certificate authority which signed your custom self-signed
> certificates you need to import the CA cert - be default named
> cacert.pem.
> If the client application(s) complain about non matching CN within the
> presented server certificate, then you made something wrong during
> certificate creation. The CN has to match the canonical name of the
> service/host.

Thanks fo the info Alexander, I will give it a try. I noticed that in
Evolution on my FC4 x86_64 box in Edit -> Preferences -> Certificates ->
{Contact Certificates, Authorities} there are *no* certificates at all
while there are tons listed in Evolution on my FC4 x86 box. Any idea
which rpm provides these or how to get Evolution to show/use them?

Thanks and regards,
Patrick

yumex question

[Gerhard Magnus]

Hello All,

In the various lists of packages displayed by yumex, some entries have a
green cross in the second column.  Does anyone know what this means?
(The online documentation doesn't mention it.)

Thanks for the help,
Jerry

yumex question

[Michael Fleming]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:56:29PM -0800, Gerhard Magnus waffled thusly:
> Hello All,
>
> In the various lists of packages displayed by yumex, some entries have a
> green cross in the second column.  Does anyone know what this means?
> (The online documentation doesn't mention it.)

These mean they are new / recently updated in the repositories you're using
(including the local RPM db). I'm not sure how long constitues "new"
(I've not checked the source or docs)
> Thanks for the help,
> Jerry

Michael.