[MlMt] thread block on certificate problem?

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 15 Jan 2016, at 8:19, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 14 Jan 2016, at 19:45, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> One of the IMAP servers I connect to changed its (self-signed) 
>> certificate.  The resulting pop-up from MailMate apparently blocked 
>> all of the other servers connected to, on machines including the one 
>> that runs SpamSieve.  The result, of course, has been a flood of 
>> spam...  Is there any way to avoid this blockage?  My SpamSieve 
>> machine, though always on, is often unattended.
>
> No, there is no way to do that. MailMate must warn about the 
> self-signed certificate. It's not ideal that it also blocks your other 
> accounts, but it's not a high priority to fix that (non-trivial 
> change). I cannot think of a good workaround. Maybe a hidden 
> preference which simply treats such problems (and similar problems) as 
> a temporary issue (it would put the account into the “unavailable” 
> state). I'll consider that.

It absolutely has to warn about the certificate problem -- I wasn't 
complaining about that.  My issue is that it blocks the other accounts. 
Making the offending account unavailable is a perfectly acceptable 
solution to me.