kmail cannot verify authenticity of email server

[Richard Dawson]

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 06:22:23 am Richard Dawson wrote:
> On Monday 28 September 2009 11:46:46 pm Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 2009-09-29, Richard Dawson wrote:
> > > Suddenly kmail is unable to verifiy authenticity of my ISP's email
> > > server, neither sending nor receiving. When I attempt to receive mail I
> > > get a message, "The server failed authenticity check
> > >  (ipostoffice.worldnet.att.net.). The certificate cannot be verified
> > > for internal reasons."
> >
> > This seems to be a bug in the SSL certificate handling, not directly
> > related to any applicaton using SSL based connections [1].
> >
> > It might be a regression introduced somewhere in the KDE 4.3 series, i.e.
> > I don't remember it happened when using 4.2.x
> >
> > Which version of KDE are you using, on which distribution?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> >
> > [1] I have seen this happen in Konqueror and Kopete as well
>
> I am running KDE 4.2.4 as provided by Mandriva.  I have been using firefox
> rather than Konqueror, so I cannot answer the final question.  I'll give
> Konquerer a try.
>
> Richard
> ___________________________________________________
>

Just attempted to log into http://my.att.net using Konquerer.  The same 
problem arose.  Logging in with fire fox was OK.

Now what?

Richard
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