Hey Eric, Should be Windows Mail - what a great name isn't it? ;)
Agreed, there are free certificates too. I am myself using a free certificate but by creating a proper certificate chain, a CA Root Certificate on the client is not required. Usually they provide instructions on their website but in general it's just concatating the personal key and they intermediate vert into a single file. Cheers, Sebastian On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't think that Win8 included a mail client any more. Which email client > are you using? > > I concur with Sebastian. > > If you'd like a free certificate, you can get one at cacert.org. Their root > certs aren't recognized by most (any?) programs though, so you'll also need > to install the cacert.org root certificate on every client host which will be > accessing your server using TLS/SSL (TLS/SSL is highly recommended). This is > ok for soho type use, but if you have more than a handful of devices/users, > purchasing a certificate may be your best route. > > Either that or use an email client which allows you to accept a certificate > that cannot be verified, which most do afaik. It's not much of a security > risk to do so. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > On 10/03/2013 09:55 PM, Sebastian Grewe wrote: >> If you are planning to run a real server you should consider getting a valid >> SSL certificate. The ones supplied with qmailtoaster are self signed and >> will be rejected by mail clients. Most clients allow to accept self signed >> certificates, as for windows 8 I am not sure but Google might help. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> Sebastian >> >>> On 04.10.2013, at 04:51, Kelly Cobean <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to set up my first Windows 8 laptop and the email client won't >>> allow me to set up my email because it says I need to install an SSL >>> certificate because I'm using SSL for the IMAP connection. I'm using the >>> cert that got installed when I installed QMT on the server. Anyone have >>> any insights on how to make this work? >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
