ot: accepting self certs into win pc?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Tue Jun 24 13:35:32 UTC 2014



Am 24.06.2014 15:29, schrieb voytek at sbt.net.au:
> On Wed, June 11, 2014 6:56 pm, mourik jan heupink - merit wrote:
> 
>>> http://blog.frankleonhardt.com/2012/certificate-errors-on-internet-expl
>>> orer-9-and-how-to-stop-them/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I didn't mention it in the post, but IIRC this did work for making
>>> some versions Outlook (and other Microsoft Mail things) happy at the same
>>> time.
>>
>> But do the above steps work for folks here..? I've tried them (IE 11,
>> win7, outlook 2013) but outlook keeps asking about (self signed) imaps
>> certificates.
> 
> 
> eezy, peezy, thanks!!
> 
> the secret ingridient was 'run as the wind', oops, 'run as admin'
> 
> invoked IE as admin, called https:/webmail, accept,
> bingo Outlook no longer asking, done
> 
> thanks, Frank, thanks, guys'n'galls

the point is not run it as admin
the point is run https://samehostname-as-imap from MSIE

Outlook and MSIE share the same trust store
Outlook is too dumb to import a certificate in recent versions
MSIE allows to do so

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