[imapfilter-devel] Interactive features bug

[Lefteris Chatzimparmpas]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:54:54PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that might be better.  Any other opinions and suggestions from the
rest that reported this?

> 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.  :)

Hehe, I know, no offence was taken, I was kidding while using the usual
FOSS defence :-)

> 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.

Yes...