Patrick, I also have had no problems using certificates for my mail accounts. I believe this is true for both self-signed root certificates and certificates from a root certificate authority, for regular IMAP/POP/SMTP SSL traffic and for S/MIME. I apologize that I missed your earliest message in this thread.
The Entourage 2004 on-line help does have some decent information on how to make this work in the application. It boils down, to me, that Entourage 2004 is far more compatible with the underlying system's handling of certificates than Entourage v.X was (in other words, it doesn't appear to rely on its own internal certificate mechanism, albeit shared with MSIE/Mac, like Entourage 10 did). If you have a self-signed SSL cert from your ISP, and it was sufficient to let you connect with Apple Mail in Panther, it should work fine in Entourage 2004. You just double-click on the cert in the Finder (works in Panther, not in Jaguar) and the cert opens up in the Keychain Access application so that you can add it to your X509Anchors keychain, which you select. This will enable SSL for IMAP/POP/SMTP with your ISP, because it adds the cert to the list of trusted certificate authorities. As I recall, we needed no extra setup to make this happen at my university in Entourage 2004 beyond what we'd already done for Apple Mail and other Keychain-using applications. But, we also prefer to use CA-signed certs for this purpose, and have switched to that. If you have an S/MIME cert that you already use for Apple Mail, you should be able to select it from the Security tab in your account settings in Entourage, assuming your account info matches what was on the cert to begin with. I have two Thawte Freemail certs attached that way. Certs are not exactly easy and I can understand that you have some frustration. On 9/2/04 12:19 PM, "T. Patrick Henebry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Patrick, are these available for public access? I used certs with E'rage >> 2004 at MIT with no problems at all, so I know the functionality is there. > > You must have an account with the ISP. -- Jeremy Reichman Information & Technology Services Rochester Institute of Technology -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
