[vox-tech] mutt ssl certificate problem

[Ken Herron]

--On Friday, March 05, 2004 15:52:17 -0800 Bryan Richter 
<btrichter@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> ---
> set spoolfile="{chreekat@purple.ucdavis.edu}inbox"	
> set certificate_file="~/.mutt/cert"
> ---
>
> If I remove the cert file and run mutt, it pops a message about UC
> Davis' certificate and asks if I want to accept it. I say "accept
> always" and it apparently does so, saving the cert to the file. However,
> if I quit and re-run mutt, it asks for the cert _again_. If I tell it to
> "accept always" again, it tells me "Warning: Certificate couldn't be
> saved". It accepts the cert, though, and mutt behaves normally after
> that.

My next step would probably be to repeat the process while strace'ing 
mutt, to see if whether any filesystem operations are failing.

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