Send SSL Email without buying a certificate

[Starlyth]

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 ;-).

[Starlyth]

After posting this trick, I subsequently got an error about invalid certificates (see <a this thread for the complete run down).

It boils down to: delete the cert8.db file from your profile, restart Thunderbird, and attempt reconnect, and you should be prompted, again, to match the mis-matched domains. CAUTION: if you delete your cert8.db file from your profile, and you have added other certificates to your profile, you will lose those as well.