[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
60 days.]
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398895
Title:
Installing CA certificates in Thunderbird gives no option to trust
IMAP/SMTP hosts
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
When importing a CA certificate in Thunderbird, the Downloading
Certificate dialog makes no sense.
Steps to reproduce:
1: Download a certificate, e.g. from http://ca.sikkerhed.org/ (direct url:
http://sikkerhed.org/files/certificates/sikkerhedorg.crt)
2: Save the certificate to a file.
3: Open Thunderbird
4: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Certificates
5: In the Certificate Manager open Authoritie
6: Click Import
7: Browse to the saved certificate from (http://ca.sikkerhed.org)
8: The dialog Downloading Certificate opens.
9: Observe the following:
* The options given are:
- Trust this CA to identify web sites.
- Trust this CA to identify email users
- Trust this CA to identify software developers.
* These three options makes *no sense* for a CA in Thunderbird. What the
user wants is to trust the CA to identify IMAP servers, SMTP servers, etc. Not
web sites.
Others things wrong with this:
* There is no explanation of what a CA is and what it means to trust it.
* The window title is Downloading Certificate. This does not make sense as
the certificate is loaded from a local file and not downloaded. It seems that
this is just a hunk of code that is reused from Firefox without thinking.
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