Good plan, I'll see if the Mac program (Mail) will accept cacert.org
root cert and see what we get.

Thanks a lot,
John



On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Eric Shubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, that should do it.
>
> FWIW, you can use cacert.org to sign certificates for free. Unfortunately,
> cacert.org isn't generally recognized (yet) at an authoritative CA. You can,
> however, have your uses import cacert's root certificate, then any
> certificate that you have cacert sign will be recognized by your users. This
> saves your users from having to import more than one certificate, or
> re-importing a certificate that has changed (in the case a host name changes
> or a certificate expires).
>
> Tek Support wrote:
>> Ok, I'll see if importing will work also.  But initially it said I
>> needed to import it, and I did that, the error I get now is that the
>> name doesn't match.  So if I create a new cert with the correct name,
>> then obviously import, that should be the end of the errors.  So once
>> I get my staff's computers to import a correctly named cert and the
>> error doesn't come back, I can live with that.
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Tek Support wrote:
>>>> Thanks, I'll do that, and do I need a 3party signed cert (like HTTPS)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The reason you're getting the other error is because the cert is not signed
>>> by a trusted authority. If you don't have it signed by a trusted authority,
>>> you'll be getting the same error unless you import the certificate (in which
>>> case you might as well import the current one - it's a self signed cert is
>>> all).
>>>
>
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
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