SSL Cert problem with Outbreak

[Bob Bell]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:40:49PM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> Here's the problem.  Outlook is complaining every time they connect
> about the fact that the certificate isn't signed by a recognized
> authority.  Not only that, but the folks who have it automatically check
> for new mail every 10 minutes or so are getting the pop up message every
> time it checks for the mail!  With evolution (which I use), the first
> time it pops up, it gives me the info about the certificate and asks if
> I want to accept it.  I say yes and I don't hear about it again.  
> 
> Does outlook have some facility like this?

I had the same problem with Outlook Express that I set up for my wife to
use IMAPS remotely to our home machine.  I solved it by making the
certificate available (temporarily) via the web (I put the contents from
"BEGIN CERTIFICATE" through "END CERTIFICATE" inclusive in a file ending
in .crt on my Apache HTTP server).  I pulled it up in Internet Explorer,
which ran me through some wizard to import the cert.  Being Microsoft
software, I think I had to reboot to get the settings to take permanent
effect, but it successfully removed the prompt you are referring to.

-- 
Bob Bell