Win 8 and all of its predecessors DOES allow you to install a new
"trusted" certificate.
Your issue appears to be that your MAIL program does not allow you to
INSTALL that certificate into Win 8
I have had this problem before, and the solution is actually simple:
a) make sure your web server is also using that same certificate
(consider using SquirrelMail or RoundCube ONLY over SSL links anyway)
b) browse to your secure web page with IE9 or IE10 (or, older
versions) -- it will complain abut the certificate
c) VIEW the certificate, then add it to your system!
NOTE: One of the most common mistakes made is in the system NAME:
- Your self-signed certificate used the hostname of your system at
installation. If you changed it, or if you use a different name in the
me or default* entries, you might get an error. Also, if your mail
client isn't using that same name to connect, you'll never get a match.
- PERSONALLY, I called my server mail.mydomain to begin with, then
made sure my DNS referred to my mail host by the same name
(mail.domain), THEN made sure my clients were all connecting to
mail.domain (which was resolved by my DNS server to the right host) --
and thus, the name & certificate used matched.
- If that horse has already left the barn, just get a new self-signed
certificate with the right name... but remember, the clients have to use
that name to access the host or else the name won't match on the
certificate.
OK, so once you use IE to install the certificate to your system, your
mail clients should allow the connections without issue. (If you
continue to have an issue, re-connect with IE to the same host name you
configure in your mail client -- and see if there is still a problem
with the certificate (like a name mismatch, or a date problem)... fix
those issues, and you'll be fine!
FWIW: I used to have all of my users connect with IE to my SquirrelMail
FIRST -- to install the certificate AND to create the "special folders"
(Sent, Trash, & Drafts) that otherwise seemed to be missing all the time.
Good Luck!
Dan McAllister
IT4SOHO
On 10/4/2013 1:57 AM, Sebastian Grewe wrote:
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?
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