On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 17:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do you mean that openssl on the server side ignores the error within
> the openssl library? Because openssl on the client side doesn't ignore
> the error - the error *NEVER* occurs. I've been looking and the decoded
> packets through ethereal and there simply isn't an error sent back from
> the server.

maybe that error isn't sent in a packet? I'm not exactly sure what the
error means, but I would have suspected an error in the certificate or
in the validation of the certificate, not an error packet from the
server.

> 
> How can you be so sure that it's not a bug in Evolution (or did I just take
> the bait)?

because evolution doesn't implement SSL and it sure as hell isn't
capable of producing a "Bad Record MAC" error string? :-)

this is why I say maybe it's a bug in mozilla's nss ssl library.

Jeff

> 
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:31:43PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > maybe openssl ignores the error? or maybe there is a bug in mozilla's
> > nss libs? I dunno, but it's not a bug in evolution - that is for sure :\
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 17:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > [Having problems getting email to the list correctly - my fault - but
> > > hopefully this will get there correctly, but apologies if there duplicates]
> > > 
> > > I'm having problems with Evolution v1.2.1 on RedHat 8.0. I have IMAP
> > > over SSL working (didn't originally due to "Unknown CA" but deleted
> > > ~/evolution/cert7.db and now works) but now I get "Bad Record MAC"
> > > when trying to connect to an SMTP server over SSL (SSL is provided on the
> > > server using stunnel).
> > > 
> > > If I use 
> > > 
> > >   openssl s_client -connect mymailserver.com:465 -cipher RC4-MD5
> > > 
> > > everything works correctly. 
> > > 
> > > From looking at the packets using ethereal, Evoultion uses the same cipher
> > > but I get "Bad Record MAC" and a dialog reporting "Input/Output" error.
> > > 
> > > Client: openssl-0.9.6b-29
> > > Server: openssl-0.9.6b-28 
> > >         stunnel 3.22 on i686-pc-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.6b 
>[engine] 9 Jul 2001
> > > 
> > > Ideas and suggestions welcome.
> > -- 
> > Jeffrey Stedfast
> > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  - www.ximian.com
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  - www.ximian.com


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