Let kontact accept ssl certificate forever

[Alvin]

On Thursday 01 April 2010 17:05:35 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this might be a slightly off-topic question...
> 
> I run Kontact on an Ubuntu 9.10 box, using the packaged version
> 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6 (btw., is the a newer "official" deb available?).  The
> Server is Kolab 2.2.3, using a CA certificate issued by "my own" CA.  Each
> time I try to connect to the server, Kontact nags that the certificate is
> not trusted, *although* I always say to trust it forever.

The latest version is 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu1~karmic1~ppa1
Whether or not you can call it official is up to you. It's packages by the 
Kubuntu people. See http://www.kubuntu.org/news for instructions.

> Is there any magic how I can let Kontact *always* accept a certificate, or
> (better) let Kontact pick up a specific CA certificate?

[Bug 162485] KDE 4 SSL Certificate support incomplete
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162485

There are, however, some workarounds in that bug report, but I haven't tried 
them yet.