"Nelson B. Bolyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Girish Narang wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I just converted my imap server to imaps. > > > > I can connect from the linux mozilla just fine (Mozilla 1.0, Linux - > > RH 7.2). However, while connecting from Mozilla running in Windows NT > > (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510), > > I get this error. > > > > "error establishing a encrypted connection to <server ip address> . > > Error Code -12193" > > > > Please help. > > I surely do wish I could persuade the PSM developers to eliminate that > blankety-blank generic error message that displays a negative number, > and change it to display a readable error message instead. There are > error message strings defined for all of NSS's error codes. > > Error -12193 is SSL_ERROR_DECODE_ERROR_ALERT. The string for that error is > "Peer could not decode an SSL handshake message." > > That error occurs when the SSL peer (the imaps server, in this case) sends > us a TLS decode_error alert. The server sends us a decode_error alert when > it cannot properly decode one of the TLS handshake messages it received, or > when it concludes that one of the TLS handshake messages it received was > improperly formatted. > > If your imaps server keeps a server log, perhaps you can find out from that > log file what the server didn't like. > > Were you doing SSL client authentication? Perhaps the remote server did > not like the client certificate you used. > > BTW, I would not be inclined to immediately presume that this implies an > error in mozilla/NSS.
Thanks for the response. I have the solution now. All I had to do was to generate a new certificate on the imapd server machine - which matched it's ip name. After that, Mozilla worked fine. However I am still wondering - why it did not complain - becasue as I have written earlier - the Linux Mozilla works fine, and MS Outlook (for a change) also worked fine.
