Bug#191846: marked as done (balsa: need magic to enable SMTP TLS)

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Subject: balsa: need magic to enable SMTP TLS
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Package: balsa
Version: 2.0.10-1
Tags: upstream sid

If you enable SMTP TLS in Settings -> Preferences -> Mail Servers ->
        Use TLS

then it often doesn't work, and you're not able to send mail. This
is because libesmtp insists on being able to verify the SSL
certificate. For that, it needs the key of the root certificate in
~/.authenticate/ca.pem. If you put the root cert key there it will
work.

Severe problems here are:

- this isn't documented *anywhere*. I found a pointer on a mailinglist
  somewhere, and had to read the source code of libesmtp.
- Balsa doesn't show any error except 'could not send message'.

Suggested fix:

- if setting up an SMTP TLS session fails because the certificate of
  the remote server could not be verified, balsa should report in a
  pop-up window:

        Failed to set up encrypted TLS session - the certificate of
        the remote mail server could not be verified. Please put the
        public key of the root CA in ~/.authenticate/ca.pem

  or something similar. For mortals this will still be a confusing
  message, but an experienced user can use this message to (help
  a mortal to) solve the problem.

  In this case, if "Use TLS" is set to "if possible", balsa should
  probably NOT try to fall back to an unencrypted session. TLS is
  possible, in theory, and the user might count on an encrypted link.

- if setting up an SMTP TLS session fails because the remote SMTP
  server doesn't accepts STARTTLS and "Use TLS" is set to "required"
  balsa should report:

        Failed to set up encrypted TLS session - the SMTP server
        does not support TLS.

- If possible in libesmtp, the "Mail Servers" configuration section
  should include an option like:

  [ ] Allow unverified certificates with TLS

  .. this will make it much easier for people talking to SMTP servers
  using self-signed certificates for which it is sometimes hard to
  get the public key of the root CA from the administrator.

Mike.

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Source: balsa
Source-Version: 2.2.2-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
balsa, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

balsa_2.2.2-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.2.2-1.diff.gz
balsa_2.2.2-1.dsc
  to pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.2.2-1.dsc
balsa_2.2.2-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.2.2-1_i386.deb
balsa_2.2.2.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.2.2.orig.tar.gz

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 191846@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Andrew Lau <netsnipe@users.sourceforge.net> (supplier of updated balsa package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:08:49 +1000
Source: balsa
Binary: balsa
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.2.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andrew Lau <netsnipe@users.sourceforge.net>
Changed-By: Andrew Lau <netsnipe@users.sourceforge.net>
Description: 
 balsa      - An e-mail client for GNOME
Closes: 191846 193960 207533 248556 264412 264746
Changes: 
 balsa (2.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream stable branch release.
     (closes: #248556)
     Bugs fixed:
     - eSMTP library interaction
       (closes: #191846)
     - Attachment window
       (closes: #193960)
     - GPG handling
       (closes: #207533)
     - Patches merged: 00_rfc3156_2004-03-31.patch
   * Rebuilt using gcrypt11/gnutls11.
     (closes: #264412, #264746)
   * GtkHTML 3.1 and GMime 2.1 support.
Files: 
 dd060493441f2687f754413632beb756 1615 gnome optional balsa_2.2.2-1.dsc
 db22c255619e818ec31ca813e3df410b 4206590 gnome optional balsa_2.2.2.orig.tar.gz
 ea2d779a8fbb68f981fa7721da675e1b 6105 gnome optional balsa_2.2.2-1.diff.gz
 0cd2314bfa1b6d6c397de1938c4ddd17 2102612 gnome optional balsa_2.2.2-1_i386.deb

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