[imapfilter-devel] Interactive features bug

[David DeSimone]

Lefteris Chatzimparmpas <lefcha at hellug.gr> wrote:
>
> Something else:  isn't it a security issue if imapfilter just accepts
> the certificates silently?  And certificates wouldn't be very useful
> in this case.

I would not want to argue that imapfilter should blindly accept a
certificate.  The big problem, as noted by others, is that imapfilter
blindly assumes that it is being run in an interactive terminal, and
wants to query the user about what to do with the new certificate.  The
correct thing to do in non-interactive mode is to print a useful error
message, and then exit.

> PS.  In my defence the source code is always there, and actually
> commenting a couple of lines would disable certificates, some more
> commenting could make them always be accepted silently, and so on. 

I wasn't trying to point out any faults; I was simply thinking that I
had seen this issue reported before, and then when I went back to look
for the message, I discovered that I was the one who reported it.  And I
never did anything about it, either.  :)

It is a problem that will hit you, literally, only once every couple of
years, and then you won't have to think about it again for a long while.

-- 
David DeSimone == Network Admin == fox at verio.net
  "I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I
   liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it." -- Clarence Darrow


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