[blindeudora] Re: The dreaded certificate error
- From: tim m <blindeudora@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:33:38 -0400
This should work sense Kurtis did such a good job on it.
I am quoting a message which will help. For fun, which it is for me, I
switched back to Eudora because people I care about are having issues with
it, and it works fine with Windows ten, so I wish to help them and anyone
else who has issues.
Persistence, that will solve it for you, and remember, once you're successful
with it, you will be again, and it will become easier and easier.
The "certificate" manager is invoked once you're in the alt-t tools, options,
menu, in "Checking mail," or in "sending mail" and you hit alt-i in checking
mail, or alt-l in sending mail.
Once you're in there, hit the C key which will invoke thap ssl manager, hit
tab one time, which puts you on top of the list of server ssl certificates,
tap right arrow until you hear silence. You're on the bottom of the list, the
highest level of certificates, tap a, "allow" and then use the alt-o" key for
"done.
If you think that more of the certificates are causing an issue, after tab is
pressed, you'll need to open each level by pressing the right arrow key for
each level of the tree and itting the A key on each one until you're once
again at the bottom of the list. The tree will automatically close after each
pressing of the "A" key, so you'll have to open them again if one of them
further down the tree is causing the issue. With gmail or Verizon or AOL
mail, this may be the case where more than one SSL certificate is the issue.
When you are "done," hit "alt-o."
And, remember this has to be done for each personality, and both sending and
receiving, number 2 and 4 of the list down from "getting started," or, in
personalities properties, using alt-p, arrow to personality you wish to
modify, and hit alt-enter to get into properties. The first tab is for
sending mail, the second tab for receiving mail. Inside that "generic" tab,
alt-l will bring up that manager, and "c" and alt-o do the same, but in
"receiving mail," it is alt-n to bring up the manager with c and alt-o again
to do the magic from within that manager.
Here is the quoted message which further clarifies what I've written here.
I am receiving a message that indicates that my SSL certificate >is rejected
and, therefore, I can not longer sent or receive >mail. The cause for the
rejection was Unknown Error.
The instructions for dealing with new SSL certificates get posted here quite
often, but I think you might be new, so here they are again. It is important
to follow all the instructions and not improvise. Skipping steps will most
likely not have good results.
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Instructions for telling Eudora to trust SSL certificates:
Do a mail check (or try to send mail if the problem is with the outgoing
server). You can't tell Eudora to trust a certificate that it hasn't received
yet.
When you get the certificate error, answering "yes" may allow you to
successfully connect to the server but it may interfere with fixing the
problem more permanently. Saying "no" is more reliable when it comes to doing
the long-term fix.
Open the personalities window, right-click on the personality in question and
select "properties".
On the incoming mail tab, click on the button to see the information for the
last SSL connection. (For outgoing mail, go to the "generic properties tab
rather than "incoming mail".)
Then click on the button to go to the certificate information manager.
In the certificate manager, the certificate chain for the connection in
question will be at the top. (Ignore all the certificates further down in
various other categories. The only one you need to concern yourself with is
the one listed at the very top, under "server certificates".) It is most
likely a chain of certificates that you have to open, not just a single
certificate. The "+" button opens additional levels. Click on the "+"s until
you have the entire chain open. Certificates that are trusted have a happy
face icon until you open them. When they opened, the happy face opens its
mouth. Certificates that aren't trusted have a skull icon. Most likely,
you'll find that the last one in the chain shows a skull. Select that one and
tell Eudora to trust it. You don't need to do anything to the certificates
that are already trusted, other than click on the plus sign to open them up.
Close out of the certificate manager and properties. Go do another mail check
(or try to send mail) and see if it works.
You may have to repeat this process a few more times depending on the number
of certificates in the chain. Each one needs to be trusted. They're like a
series of locked doors. You have to unlock each of the doors before it can be
opened to see the next door.
If you have multiple personalities that use the same server, you only need to
do this for one of them, but if you have multiple personalities that use
different servers, you have to be sure the personality you choose is the
right one.
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Curtis Delzer
tim m
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