For the past 3 days I have had "Changed SSL Certificate" dialogs every 5 mins (i.e., every time Claws tries to retieve emails from googlemail). (1) If I click the Accept and save button after more than a minute or so, the GUI freezes and I have to use xkill & restart claws. (2) If I click the Accept and save button quickly enough everything seems to work. But after 3 days of having this happening all the time it is very aggravating. Couldn't there be an option "Automatically accept changed SSL certificates if the signature status is correct", either globally or per account? Thanks. PS I'm using Debian 6 which is why my claws is a bit old.
There is an option, skip_ssl_cert_check, see http://www.claws-mail.org/manual/claws-mail-manual.html#adv_hidden about gmail and certs, see http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2012-January/001096.html
I attempted to reproduce the GUI freeze. I waited 8 minutes, but there was no freeze.
I changed the clawsrc file as suggested and that seems to have worked. It worries me a bit that this is a global change. I wish it was more fine-grained, e.g., for a specific site, or at the very least only applied when the certificate's signature is valid.
I started having this same problem recently, with GoDaddy servers. The work-around described here is just that: a work-around, not a solution.
Disabling verification of SSL certificates as a proper solution? Is it some kind of joke?
Newer versions of Claws-Mail now have a per account SSL option named "Automatically accept unknown valid SSL certificates". This is what you want there rather than skipping verification.
Thanks, that solution works properly.