[ale] [ot] Thunderbird and certs

[JK]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 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.

I don't think it will work, because of the way they have
SMTP-AUTH set up, but it would be worth a try.

Thanks,

-- JK

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