"Security Certificate" issue since changing to "Secure POP"

  • Thread starter Michael R. Casaretto
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Michael R. Casaretto

Since my university changed to a "Secure POP" requirement,
I have recieved the following message each time that I
check email. I have not attempted to send from it yet, but
this occurs everytime that I pull from the server. I do
recieve my email in spite of this.
The message is as follows (the X's denote the servers DNS
name): Unable to establish a secure connection to "X.X.X."
There is a problem with the security certificate from that
server. Use Internet Explorer to install the correct
certificate. If you continue, the information you veiw
and send will not be secure.
I am then given the option to "Stop" or "Continue". I
choose continue each time and everything seems to be OK.
However, I am concerned by this situation. Please dvise on
how to rectify this. Thank you in advance.

Michael
 
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Chris Ridd

Since my university changed to a "Secure POP" requirement,
I have recieved the following message each time that I
check email. I have not attempted to send from it yet, but
this occurs everytime that I pull from the server. I do
recieve my email in spite of this.
The message is as follows (the X's denote the servers DNS
name): Unable to establish a secure connection to "X.X.X."
There is a problem with the security certificate from that
server. Use Internet Explorer to install the correct
certificate. If you continue, the information you veiw
and send will not be secure.
I am then given the option to "Stop" or "Continue". I
choose continue each time and everything seems to be OK.
However, I am concerned by this situation. Please dvise on
how to rectify this. Thank you in advance.
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Which version of Entourage are you using? Do you know if the cert is
actually correct and that you're contacting the server using the address
that's in the cert?

I've successfully contacted our LDAP server over SSL using Entourage 2004,
so MS's SSL code does seem to be doing the right sorts of checks using the
right sorts of certificate databases on *my* Mac.

It might help if you can obtain your POP server's certificate and the
certificate which signed it.

Cheers,

Chris
 
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Eric Kwang

Since my university changed to a "Secure POP" requirement,
I have recieved the following message each time that I
check email. I have not attempted to send from it yet, but
this occurs everytime that I pull from the server. I do
recieve my email in spite of this.
The message is as follows (the X's denote the servers DNS
name): Unable to establish a secure connection to "X.X.X."
There is a problem with the security certificate from that
server. Use Internet Explorer to install the correct
certificate. If you continue, the information you veiw
and send will not be secure.
I am then given the option to "Stop" or "Continue". I
choose continue each time and everything seems to be OK.
However, I am concerned by this situation. Please dvise on
how to rectify this. Thank you in advance.

Michael
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Hello Michael,

My company has its own certificate, however, even after having properly
importing it into Keychain under 10.3.4 (much easier than on 10.2.8), I
still get that message myself. I don't think it's a big issue. Perhaps some
other people might comment, but it isn't something that affects your ability
to synch your Entourage 2004 client with Exchange Server 2000 SP2 or later.

Eric
 
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