[ale] [ot] Thunderbird and certs

[David Tomaschik]

JK wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I use an SMTP server whose IP address is mapped to my
> domain name, but whose certificate is associated with
> my hosting provider's domain name.  It works fine,
> except that:
>
> (1) TBird asks "OMG the cert doesn't match the domain!
> Do you really wanna send?" every freakin' time I send
> email, which is kind of annoying; except that
>
> (2) For a few days it stopped doing that -- but when
> I restarted the machine (it's an XP box) the "cert
> doesn't match" prompts came back. I have no idea what
> (if anything) I did to make it stop.  I've trolled
> the preferences tree, but found nothing relevant-looking.
> Not even "Privacy & Security->Certificates" seems to
> have a "just trust the bloody thing" control.
>
> Does anyone know how to tell TBird, "please just
> always accept this cert"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- JK
>
>   
I just ended up changing the hostname in my server settings to the one 
on the cert (assuming that actually matches the real machine hostname).