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Apple Mail - problem with SSL certificate
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Jan 15, 2009, 05:29 PM
 
The message I get is:

"unable to verify SSL server.

Mail was unable to verify the identity of this server, which has a certificate issued to "(server name here)". The error was:

The root certificate for this server could not be verified.

You might be connecting to a computer that is pretending to be "(server name here)", and putting your confidential information at risk. Would you like to continue anyway?"

I imported the SSL certificate to my keychain.

Then, for a while, the incoming mail was OK.

But it never worked for the outgoing mail.

My webhost now suggested to turn SSL off.

Not sure if that's a good idea.

I'd rather find out what's the problem here. Do you have an idea?

Thanks.
     
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Jan 16, 2009, 04:54 AM
 
Not sure if it will help, but it sounds like it could... take a look at this post:

http://ilovett.com/blog/projects/app...e-installation
     
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Jan 18, 2009, 02:26 PM
 
The problem has been solved.

According to a mail from the host, there was an error made by the host by installing self-signed SSL certificates. (Whatever that means). But they have a very responsive customer service department and finally we figured out how to solve the puzzle.
     
   
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