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Starlyth · **Send SSL Email without buying a certificate -** 03-31-2006, 01:43 AM

As someone who travels frequently, and ends up using "free" wireless hotspots, I've become more cautious (I was going to say paranoid...). I have set up my email to connect via SSL for both receiving and sending. Receiving wasn't a big issue, but everytime I would send email, I would get a domain mismatch error (i.e., the cert for page-zone.com doesn't match mydomain.com, which is the one I'm connecting to), which got very annoying, very quickly. After looking into getting my own certificates ($$OUCH$$) for each domain, I figured I would just live with the error messages.

Until...

For those that use Thunderbird, there is a nifty extention, Remember Mismatched Domains,that teaches Thunderbird to ignore that error message for domains you specify. The extension also works for Firefox.

Of course, this can be a dangerous extension, so only use it for domains you trust (like Page-Zone.com, of course ;-).

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Starlyth Member Status: Offline Posts: 31 Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Moscow, ID Rep Power: 38	Send SSL Email without buying a certificate - 03-31-2006, 01:43 AM As someone who travels frequently, and ends up using "free" wireless hotspots, I've become more cautious (I was going to say paranoid...). I have set up my email to connect via SSL for both receiving and sending. Receiving wasn't a big issue, but everytime I would send email, I would get a domain mismatch error (i.e., the cert for page-zone.com doesn't match mydomain.com, which is the one I'm connecting to), which got very annoying, very quickly. After looking into getting my own certificates ($$OUCH$$) for each domain, I figured I would just live with the error messages. Until... For those that use Thunderbird, there is a nifty extention, Remember Mismatched Domains,that teaches Thunderbird to ignore that error message for domains you specify. The extension also works for Firefox. Of course, this can be a dangerous extension, so only use it for domains you trust (like Page-Zone.com, of course ;-).