[Gllug] Mozilla SSL wierdness

[Xander D Harkness]

Sean Burlington wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> will wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I have an ongoing problem with mozilla.  Every once in a while (no
>> > specific intervals, but anything from 6 months to 2 weeks) the SSL
>> > element of mozilla stops working.  This is a pain, I access my mail
>> > over SSL and am required to access web pages over SSL for my job.
>> > This problem has been happening ever since I started using mozilla and
>> > I have discovered a fix, but it is an inconvenient one.  If I remove
>> > my .mozilla directory and re-run mozilla the problem goes away, but
>> > then I have lost all my settings.  I am currently using 1.0 Release
>> > Candidate 2[0] but I have had this problem with other versions and on
>> > both redhat and mandrake.  I have screengrabbed the errors I get and
>> > put them here:
>> >
>> > http://home.hellacool.co.uk/error.png
>> > http://home.hellacool.co.uk/error2.png
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this, and how I can solve
>> > this? Google doesn't seem to want to provide any answers to this one.
>>
>>
>> This is quite an oldish version of Mozilla.
>> Try a newer one maybe. Current is 1.2b which is a testing version. Or
>> 1.1 for stable.
>> It may take a while to tell if it's made any difference though.
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
> I have never had this problem (but I don't use SSL much)
>
> if you are upgrading I have had to abandon the latest version of 
> mozilla(1.2b) as I can't see the imap folders on my mailserver
>
>
> I'm not sure how widespread this problem is but it has been reported
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131938
>
> so don't use 1.2b if you need imap
>
I am using 1.2b with ssl and imap (UW) happily since its arrival.  I had 
problems with the Mozilla Red Hat upgraded Mozilla on RH8.  I found the 
config file htmlview and swapped it for 1.2b and all is happy :-)

What IMAP server are you connecting to?

Kind regards
Xander

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