Opera Mail complains about security certificates

hucker

hucker

Opera Mail complains about security certificates for anything with web images in the email - eg. from Ebay about an order. It never used to do this. It started after I reinstalled windows and simply copied the Opera Mail folder to where it was. Is something missing? Do I need to install it? If I accept the certificate, it doesn't ask me next time, but the window pops up briefly which is very annoying, as there's often about 5 warnings per message.

I have now installed it, but it's still not working.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @hucker

@hucker I guess it's kinda expected for a software that hasn't been updated in the last twelve years.

hucker

hucker @leocg

@leocg No, it isn't. Since it worked before my windows reinstall.

And since it's the only email client I've ever found with filtering on body, and I don't wish to learn a new one anyway, why would I stop using it?

I have a feeling it's a setting somewhere, perhaps a secret one in a config file. Burnout probably told me how to do it, he is an expert on mail. Is he still around?

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @hucker

@hucker Which version do you have exactly? The final update had a build number (the last number in the complere version number) of 1044. If you don't have that version you'll need to go to the archives and find it.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

When a cert dialog pops up, you can switch to the "Security" tab in it, check "Remember my choice for this certificate" and click "Approve". Is that what you've done already?

hucker

hucker @sgunhouse

@sgunhouse said in Opera Mail complains about security certificates:

@hucker Which version do you have exactly? The final update had a build number (the last number in the complere version number) of 1044. If you don't have that version you'll need to go to the archives and find it.

It's 1044.

hucker

hucker @burnout426

@burnout426 said in Opera Mail complains about security certificates:

When a cert dialog pops up, you can switch to the "Security" tab in it, check "Remember my choice for this certificate" and click "Approve". Is that what you've done already?

I didn't notice the security tab. I only clicked approve, which did remember it, but flashed the dialog up briefly for very instance in each email, about 5 with Ebay.

I just tried what you said, but the same thing happened. I never used to have them flash up. I thought I'd found a way to ignore all certificate problems.

Or..... what certificates does it use? It's obviously not using my up to date windows ones - can I update the ones it's using?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @hucker

@hucker Hmm, I tested Opera Mail 1044 with my Vivaldi mail account. I got just one cert pop-up (for the mail server), went to the security tab, checked the box and approved it. Not getting any flashes of cert dialogs after restarting Opera Mail. Not getting anything for ebay or anything like that either.

Opera Mail has a built-in certificate manager. Unfortunately there's no way to load it in the standalone Opera Mail client (not even if you use the Manage certificates command tied to ctrl / for example). If you could, maybe there's something you could do there (import a cert or something). If you temporarily install Opera 12, you can goto "Advanced -> Security -> Manage Certificates" in settings to see what the dialog looks like at least.

You can try having:

[Security Prefs]
Enable TLS v1.0=0
Certificate revocation lists for ssl=0
OCSP Validate Certificates=0

in your operaprefs.ini, but not sure it that will help with the flashes.

hucker

hucker @burnout426

@burnout426 Opera Mail was never like this until I reinstalled Windows. Everything was kept by copying "c:\users\peter\appdata\local\opera mail", except the password for the mail server. There must have been something stored elsewhere, perhaps including the setting for certificates, or the certificates themselves.

Can I have done anything to it by clicking approve without ticking the box? Have I got them on semi approval or something? Unfortunately they flash up so fast I can't change them. Can I reset it?

I don't have an operaprefs.ini, only an operaprefs_default.ini, both in c:\users\peter\appdata\local\opera mail, and in c:\program files (x86)\opera mail - neither has the above entries.

Can I install Opera 12 without screwing up the current Opera One? Or should I do it on another computer (I have 8)? I assume that's the latest combined browser/mail version - would it create a prefs file with something I could copy over?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @hucker

@hucker In "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Opera Mail" (if I remember correctly) is where operaprefs.ini is at.

That's also where the crt.dat files and trust.dat files are at. You should be able to delete optrust.dat to get the dialogs again to start approving from scratch. Not sure if it will help though.

You can install Opera 12 without interfering with Opera Mail. There's a choice in the Opera 12 installer to even make a standalone installation so you can just install it to a folder on your desktop. data will be in the "profile" folder in that folder on your desktop. Would be best to do the standalone installation so it doesn't make changes to the registry.