[Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client
I am trying to get TLS to work with Outlook 2007 and I've hit a small problem. Whenever I start it up, I get this error:
"The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified. The target principal name is incorrect." (yes/no choice of trusting)
I first tried with a wildcard cert (*.elisand.com), and then tried with mail.elisand.com - both certs are from cacert.org and the root CA certs are installed and functioning properly on my system (so the certs should be trusted).
I've searched all over Google and such trying to find out why Outlook would give me this error from an IMAP/TLS connection (closest I could find was Exchange related info), and I know this is by no means an Outlook mailing list... though I'm just wondering if anyone else on here has ever encountered this problem before and could point me in the right direction to getting the SSL cert working with Outlook.
Thanks in advance!
You could try the old import trick - do https://mail.elisan.com:993 and accept the cert in IE. Outlook should then just accept it.
Rick
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:08 -0400, Eli wrote:
I am trying to get TLS to work with Outlook 2007 and I've hit a small problem. Whenever I start it up, I get this error:
"The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified. The target principal name is incorrect." (yes/no choice of trusting)
I first tried with a wildcard cert (*.elisand.com), and then tried with mail.elisand.com - both certs are from cacert.org and the root CA certs are installed and functioning properly on my system (so the certs should be trusted).
I've searched all over Google and such trying to find out why Outlook would give me this error from an IMAP/TLS connection (closest I could find was Exchange related info), and I know this is by no means an Outlook mailing list... though I'm just wondering if anyone else on here has ever encountered this problem before and could point me in the right direction to getting the SSL cert working with Outlook.
Thanks in advance!
Rick wrote:
You could try the old import trick - do https://mail.elisand.com:993 and accept the cert in IE. Outlook should then just accept it.
Thanks Rick - that's a neat trick I didn't even know/think about. However, after trying it (IE7 doesn't seem to let you save invalid certs btw, in my experience anyways) - it just confirmed that the certificates I'm trying are both valid. After I waited for the IMAP session to time out (so I'd see output in the browser), the "security audit" for IE showed that the certificate (tried both mail.elisand.com and *.elisand.com) are OK.
Eli.
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