AW: ot: accepting self certs into win pc?

Patrick De Zordo patrick at spamreducer.eu
Tue Jun 24 15:20:50 UTC 2014


Well, I'm reading what I see - and there is no testing system mentioned as far as I can see? Probably in an old post, some time ago?

If it is a test environment you could do what you want, that's true; but if you are just testing it would not be that big problem suppressing the certificate validity error.

Nothing else to amend from my side.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von Reindl
> Harald
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juni 2014 17:08
> An: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Betreff: Re: ot: accepting self certs into win pc?
> 
> 
> 
> Am 24.06.2014 17:03, schrieb Patrick De Zordo:
> > Don't use self signed certs! - Buy some, or use free services! Your
> reputation will grow!
> 
> pfff you know what testing and private systems are?
> 
> in both cases there is no reputation that will grow and if it comes to the
> trustable question - depending on the userbase self signed ones may be
> more trustable than a unconditional trusted CA somewhere from turkey.....
> sadly only if you remove all the corrupt CA's out of your clients
> 
> so until you asked for what usecase the certificate are your "buy some" is
> nonsense
> 
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von
> >> voytek at sbt.net.au
> >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juni 2014 15:29
> >> An: dovecot at dovecot.org
> >> Betreff: Re: ot: accepting self certs into win pc?
> >>
> >> 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

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