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My domain is hosted on endor.tchmachines.com and I use endor.* as the server address to access my email over pop, obviously using SSL for security. Everything was cool. A couple of days ago my email client (thunderbird) started giving me a popup that the SSL certificate for endor cannot be verified because the "issuer" is unknown and querying if it should accept the certificate. So, two questions: 1) Did the SSL certificate change for endor? The certificate thunderbird sees has an issue date of 2/8/08. I am a little concerned because I am traveling internationally and using unknown networks. 2) How can any TCH customer validate SSL certificates for the various servers? I realize that this would normally be done at a protocol level between an user's client software (web browser, email software, etc) and the TCH server. Are the public keys posted somewhere for eyeball verification if automatic verification fails? Alternately, can you help set things up so that automatic verification of a certificate works using the appropriate protocols? A screen shot of thunderbird's pop up is attached. Thanks!

Yes - I have been puzzling over what happened with the posts Looks like we crossed paths, anyway, no harm done.. Will open ticket as you suggest. Thanks.

I tried to change the settings to use SSL and port 995 (I am using thunderbird under linux), but get a "connection refused" error. Using wireshark to sniff the packets shows that the remote server (server34) is sending a TCP RST when my client tries to open the connection. A couple of other notes: 1) I can access other non-tch mail servers using secure pop and smtp so its unlikely that the connection is being blocked at my end or in the middle. ( unless comcast really really hates you and just you... ) 2) I distinctly recall this as working till a few months ago and then it just stopped one day. I changed the settings to use regular pop, which worked, so I just forgot about it and didn't bring up the issue. Thanks!

My domain is hosted by TCH and I use pop (via thunderbird) to access my mail at this domain. However, I notice that I cannot enable TLS or SSL so the user/password exchange is secure. Does TCH support secure pop? I can't find any documentation on it on the site. If not, can you please enable it? This is critical for me as well as others, as many of us now access our email from open wi-fi hot spots. (coffee shops, airports...)