[fetchmail]disable ssl cert check

Matthias Andree matthias.andree@gmx.de
Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:08:27 +0200


Hannes Erven <h.e@gmx.at> writes:

> Hi Rob,
>
>
>> As Matthias already said, disabling the sslcertck option makes a
>> mockery of using SSL.
>
> Not necessarily. When checking the certificate's fingerprint with
> sslfingerprint, nosslcertck should suppress all warnings about
> incomplete certificate chains.

The (justified) complaint was that "nosslcertck" does not exist.

I don't plan to add this option however, because the user might just as
well not use ssl/tls at all to achieve the same purpose.

I'm not going to to take part in new "creating false feeling of
security" games.

-- 
Matthias Andree