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Does Outlook 2007 have trouble with security certificates?
I'm hoping someone can help me with a very perplexing problem, because I'm
all out of ideas. The short version is that I have a self-generated security certificate for IMAP SSL, and despite importing it into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities Registry store, and it saying it's successful, when I reboot the computer or even come out of sleep mode, Outlook (whether it's running or not) complains it can't trust the server again. This happens across three PCs with both Outlook and Windows Mail. So is there a known issue with security certs and Outlook 2007? |
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Does Outlook 2007 have trouble with security certificates?
Jason Dunn wrote:
The short version is that I have a self-generated security certificate for IMAP SSL, and despite importing it into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities Registry store, and it saying it's successful, when I reboot the computer or even come out of sleep mode, Outlook (whether it's running or not) complains it can't trust the server again. This happens across three PCs with both Outlook and Windows Mail. Are you sure the Trusted Root store if the correct place? Does the cert you generated identify you as a Certificate Authority? -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Does Outlook 2007 have trouble with security certificates?
Are you sure the Trusted Root store if the correct place? Does the cert
you generated identify you as a Certificate Authority? Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I was waiting on a response from my server admin. Here's what he said: "Yes, the root CA is a CA cert. It is self-signed. Its Subject is C=CA/ST=Alberta/L=Calgard/O=Thoughts Media/OU=Admin Team/CN=Root CA It has X509v3 Basic Constraints "CA:TRUE" (which means it is a CA cert). That's this guy's question, and the answer is yes. There is a self-generated service cert which was signed by that root CA cert. The subject of this cert is C=CA/ST=Alberta/O=Thoughts Media/OU=Admin " That means nothing to me, but maybe it will mean something to you. :-) |
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Does Outlook 2007 have trouble with security certificates?
Jason Dunn wrote:
"Yes, the root CA is a CA cert. It is self-signed. Its Subject is C=CA/ST=Alberta/L=Calgard/O=Thoughts Media/OU=Admin Team/CN=Root CA It has X509v3 Basic Constraints "CA:TRUE" (which means it is a CA cert). That's this guy's question, and the answer is yes. There is a self-generated service cert which was signed by that root CA cert. The subject of this cert is C=CA/ST=Alberta/O=Thoughts Media/OU=Admin " That means nothing to me, but maybe it will mean something to you. :-) What do you have set for the "Intended Purposes"? -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Does Outlook 2007 have trouble with security certificates?
What do you have set for the "Intended Purposes"?
Good question! I asked my admin guy, and he said that while the cert is RFC 3280 compliant, there's a clause there that says this: " ... Certificate using applications MAY require that a particular purpose be indicated in order for the certificate to be acceptable to that application." So is that what Outlook 2007 requires? And is this new to Outlook 2007, or something that has always been the case? |
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Does Outlook 2007 have trouble with security certificates?
Jason Dunn wrote:
Good question! I asked my admin guy, and he said that while the cert is RFC 3280 compliant, there's a clause there that says this: " ... Certificate using applications MAY require that a particular purpose be indicated in order for the certificate to be acceptable to that application." So check the intended purpose. So is that what Outlook 2007 requires? And is this new to Outlook 2007, or something that has always been the case? It has always been the case, as far as I know. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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