Re: nAlPineForum: Alpine & Fastmail Authentication Problem

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:22 PM, M.RossARR <mrossarr@...> wrote:
> Re: [Alpine-info] nAlPineForum: Alpine & Fastmail Authentication Problem
>
>> On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, M.RossARR wrote:
>> >
>> > Has anybody suffered an "authenticate" problem with Alpine > (v2.00)
>> > signing in to the Fastmail.fm servers. All works well > with Pine 4.64 on
>> > Fastmail for numerous years now.
>>
>> I have had problems with gmail similar to what you are seeing. In this
>> case, the problem went away when I upgraded the version of openssl that I
>> was running in my system to the latest version as distributed in the linux
>> distribution I use.
>
> Well, this is a Windozz XP loaded ThinkPad R60e laptop, & the hardware is
> not the problem, - so - being an MShaft software operation, it is suspect in
> all cases for communications problems. But I don't suspect an SSL problem in
> this case.

The error you are getting IS an SSL error.

> general Pine interface problem too. Like I wrote, Pine v4.64 suffers no
> problem with Fastmail for quite a while now. It connects well SSL with the
> Fastmail cert. The problem is only with using Alpine & the Fastmail cert for
> SSL! NoValidate lets Alpine connect, but not secure of course.

The traffic will still be encrypted. novalidate-cert just means the
cert itself won't be validated with the installed root certs. That's