FYI - when we were getting activesync setup we used a self signed
certificate.  Activesync WILL WORK with a self signed certificate, but you
need to have the CA be trusted.  To do this, you need to export the
certificate and then import it into the certificate store as a CA on each
and every handheld.  That was reason enough for us, even as a non-profit, to
go with a full certificate from a trusted CA.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Charles Marcus
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 2010-05-26 6:36 PM, Jean-Pierre van Melis wrote:
> > Activesync refuses to work with self-signed certificates. You can't
> > tell it to accept a non-CA certificate.
>
> According to what I've read, that's actually not activesync that is
> refusing to work with one, it is the device/carrier...
>
> Sometimes you can get around this limitation by posting the cert on a
> web accessible URL, then navigate there using the device's web browser,
> which *will* let you accept/install the cert, then activesync will just
> use it... but it doesn't always work either...
>
> > I'm also using an autoprovisioning script As things are at this
> > moment this certificate is installed in use and working. If pound
> > would support the stripping of this prefix or ASSP would take a URL
> > it could be implemented with 5 extra lines in that same config. The
> > reverse proxy is already running and configured there.
>
> If its not broke, don't fix it - also, its not like real certs are that
> expensive, unless you need a lot (ISP, hosting reseller, etc).
>
> >> I don't want to use portnumbers for, what I think, obvious reasons.
> >> Not obvious to me...
>
> > Esthetics and ease of use. We're probably different kind of persons
> > and we're most likely not going to agree in this field.
>
> Well, aesthetics is one thing - that's a personal preference thing, so
> there is no 'right or wrong'... but as for the ports and 'ease of use' -
> the method I'm talking about does *not* require the end-user to manually
> designate a different port, that happens automatically through a redirect.
>
> Its definitely most useful for browser based services, though (webmail,
> browser based management services, etc)...
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>
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