Topic: Entourage on Mac - Unable to establish a secure connection..

[silasp]

Hi there.
I've hit a bit of a wall trying to get SME server 7.1 working with Entourage on Mac OSX 10.4.8

When I start Entourage, I get this error:

"Unable to establish a secure connection to [hostname] because the correct root certificate is not installed"

I'm trying to connect to SME server using Secure IMAP (993) and Secure SMTP (465).

So far, I've tried installing the CA Cert certificate mod and have imported certificates from
https://hostname.com/webmail
https://hostname.com:465/
https://hostname.com:993/

Thing is, I suspect that the CA Certificate mod only works for SSL web pages and not for email.

I'm guessing the issue might be caused by secure email using a key that is like "servername.domain.com" whereas mail is externally accessed using "mail.domain.com" - that mismatch might be causing the problem.

Any idea how to fix this? It's really frustrating that Entourage doesn't have a "trust the secure connection anyway" option (like every other mail / web client on the planet)

Cheers,
Silas.

[mmccarn]

Here you go:

http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Entourage:_Using_SME.27s_Self-Signed_Certificate_for_SSL_Connections_from_Entourage_on_OS_X_10.4