[ale] [ot] Thunderbird and certs

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Jul 30 11:32:25 EDT 2007


On Mon 2007-07-30 11:24:16 -0400, JK wrote:

> 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:
 [...]
> Does anyone know how to tell TBird, "please just
> always accept this cert"?

Have you tried just using your provider's domain name in your SMTP
preferences instead of your mapped name?  I know it's not as "pretty",
but it should satisfy the certificate-checking logic.

    --dkg



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