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
not ideal, but your traffic will still be encrypted over the wire.

I hadn't used fastmail in a long time, but have an old account. I
fired it up, and was able to connect using alpine 2.0 that ships with
ubuntu. It worked over SSL, and did not require the novalidate-cert.
In other words, there does not appear to be a problem with the
fastmail cert, nor a compatibility issue with alpine software.

This may point to a problem with how alpine is looking up root
certificates on your install.

I can't provide much more for pointers here though, cause I don't run
windows, and my gut says this has to do with the copy of alpine you
have (how it's SSL is configured) and its interaction with the SSL
libs on your system. I can verify that alpine 2.0 on linux connects to
fastmail via ssl correctly

FWIW, my "incoming-folders" contains the following:

incoming-folders=FM {mail.messagingengine.com/ssl/user=myusername@...}INBOX

Best of luck,
--
Josh I.