Hi
On Thursday 17 July 2014 at 6:24:36 AM, in
mid:1117609439.20140717152...@sunnysydney.com, Tom wrote:
using TLS for email retrievals from our mail server
now, we installed a new certificate on the server.
It's a valid certificate but self-signed and while
outlook and other mail programs are happy, my TB does
not like it
Are the other MUAs actually happy, or just configured to ignore
errors? And, if the latter, are they really receiving the mail over an
encrypted connection or is it falling back to unencrypted?
I am getting an alert that the server did not
provide a root certificate during the session, and
there is no root certificate in my address book.
Connection may not be secure. The options to view or
add to trusted are greyed out. I have a choice to
continue and if I do so I am getting my email.
And when this happens, is it transmitted over an encrypted channel or
not?
But this
is per email account and each time I want to retrieve
emails, so not a working solution.
Indeed not.
How do I import a root certificate.
It's several years since I needed to do this, and my memory of it is
unclear. I think you set up an address book entry, import the
certificate into that AB entry, view the certificate, go to the
certification path tab, select the certificate you want to trust,
and click add to trusted.
I can see the
address book section and the import function there
but I am unclear on how to create the file for import.
What format should that be in?
.cer, .p12, .pfx seem to work, at least.
I have an email with
the certificate details (a quick SSL Basic SSL
Certificate and could copy/paste that info into a
file but I suspect The Bat is looking for something
more than a text file?
See above.
I did some searching but found either very old
postings without any outcomes or a simple import
advice. Sorry I am not experienced enough and any
assistance will be appreciated a lot.
I played about with self-certificates quite a few years ago, and just
for email, not TLS. And I have had to import new root certificates a
few times, when email service providers changed server certificates
and when correspondents had s/mime certificates from a CA that was not
already there or had expired. So no great wealth of experience on my
part.
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