Re: SMTP+TLS and Mail.app

From: Kevin Stevens (no email)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 14:06:07 EST

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    On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Robin Helgelin wrote:

    > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Steve Finkelstein <> wrote:
    >> Hi all,
    >>
    >> This probably applies more to some OS/X forum, and if so, I sincerely
    >> apologize. I just figured someone active in the Postfix community has
    >> dealt with the same issue as I'm dealing with now. I'm running a
    >> postfix based MTA, and enforce TLS over SMTP for authentication with
    >> SASL. Works wonderful with all MUAs including Thunderbird, etc. I'm
    >> having a ton of trouble with Mail.app. For one odd reason or another,
    >> it doesn't wish to deal with self-signed certificates. I'm going to be
    >> purchasing a GoDaddy certificate shortly, but regardless, this is kind
    >> of silly of Mail.app.
    >
    > I don't have any problems using self-signed certificates with
    > Mail.app. Currently I'm using a certificate from cacert.org without
    > problems.

    Same here. In fact, there's an Apple kbase article on how to accept a
    certificate, and it uses a self-signed cert as an example. I do agree you
    probably need to take your issue to an OS X forum, though. Have you tried
    the Apple Support user forums? An less interactive alternative would be
    macosxhints.com

    KeS


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