Certificate doesn't verify

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Donnerstag, 5. März 2009 05:43:49 schrieb Andrew J. Kopciuch:
> On March 4, 2009, Paul Douglas Franklin wrote:
> > I have a user who connects from on or off site using Outlook 2003.  He
> > keeps getting the following message:
> > "The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that
> > could not be verified.  The certificate chain processed but terminated
> > in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider.  Do
> > you want to continue using this server?"
>
> An installation contains a self signed SSL certificate.  If you read that
> message carefully, it means exactly what it says.  In a dumbed down version
> : when Outlook is checking the certificate, it sees it is signed, but can't
> tell who signed it.

You can try to import the certificate and possibly the root certificate into 
the certificate story of your client.
One way to do this is to use IE and see if you can make it issue no warning 
anymore after the import.

>
> If you want to get rid of this error, you need to get your certificate
> actually signed by someone trusted.  


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