Ihug SMTP SSL cert expired?

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xurizaemon

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#42297 1-Oct-2009 18:28

My father in law uses Ihug, Outlook and PGP Desktop.

Recently he's started getting the following warnings when connecting to his Ihug mailbox:

Is this normal? (I mean, I'm sure Ihug wouldn't want the cert to expire. So: is it the fault of PGP desktop, or just that someone @ Ihug forgot to renew it?)

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#260294 1-Oct-2009 19:14

You'd be surprised at the number of ISPs or IT organisations who let their certs expire.

They should have it sorted soon.

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#260370 1-Oct-2009 22:49

comodo.. good to know they splashed out on a trusted root for their certs /sarcasm...

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#264106 15-Oct-2009 16:59

Ihug's response: "Disable SSL and the warning will go away. We trialled SSL but decided not to continue it."

This would have been the rocking attitude back in the day, but Nick and Tim are long gone and Vodafone really oughta be putting a bit more polish on.

Hey guys, CACert are free ;)

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#264110 15-Oct-2009 17:26

IMO not offering SSL mail access is bordering on stupid. I would like to see massive warnings on mail clients like when you submit forms to insecure websites in browsers.

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#264117 15-Oct-2009 17:45

Agreed. I can't imagine why they would "trial" SSL and then decide against continuing it. Wierd.

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#264121 15-Oct-2009 17:58

I posted on the Vodafone Forums.. If they don't want to use SSL then don't advertise STARTTLS via SMTP!

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#264139 15-Oct-2009 20:12

Hey I did say AFAIK at the start of my post :P I don't look after the systems but that is what I heard on the grape vine when I asked the same question

I have raised it with the right people - will give a prod tomorrow

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#264226 16-Oct-2009 11:07

This issue should now be resolved