[WXC/VFX] POP3 certificate error when accessing WxC email

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knightrider

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#30592 14-Feb-2009 09:57

I've started getting this error when Thunderbird checks for mail. Can anyone shed some light please?

My settings are:

nate

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#195822 14-Feb-2009 14:17

Change the option "Use secure connection" to Never.

I had this same issue back with ihug, took me forever to figure out what was wrong.

knightrider

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#195824 14-Feb-2009 14:55

Solved!!

Thanks.

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#195827 14-Feb-2009 15:19

Unless of course you wanted a secure connection....

The better way would be to change the address in that settings page to be imap.xnet.co.nz

pop/pop3/imap .xnet.co.nz all point to the same place.

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#195830 14-Feb-2009 15:49

Filterer: Unless of course you wanted a secure connection....

Agreed, but first you need to check your ISP supports POP3 over SSL.

I had this setting turned on for quite awhile and it wasn't an issue until ihug was being crippled under huge spam loads (~ 3 years ago I think) that they put in IronPort. Since they didn't utilise the SSL option of IronPort, if you tried to connect under SSL, it would come up with a "SSL cert not valid" (or similar) error.

Turning off the option stopped my email client attempting SSL and all was well with the world.