No, this isn’t the unofficial Leopard blog… but Leopard is out today and I’m finally free to talk about it fully.
A lot of people use cPanel. It’s a great front-end for managing web servers. And, it offers a lot of services quickly and easily. One of the things it offers is email with SSL support. But, not everyone goes out to get an SSL certificate for their server just because. Some of my servers do, some don’t… I’d tell you which, but I really don’t want you trying to spoof your way into my network.
In Tiger, Mail just let you off with a once-per-launch warning that the SSL certificate couldn’t be verified. And in Leopard, it still does that for reading email.
Not so for sending however. You get a notice that the SSL certificate couldn’t be verified, and you can’t send the email. Thanks Apple, no way to get around it… except of course to turn SSL off and have all my emails go out in the clear. Specifically, the error will read: “The certificate for this server was signed by an unknown certifying authority.”
Hopefully Apple will have this fixed by Macworld Expo… while I have a WWAN card, a lot of people will be trying whatever hotspot is open… and open to tapping into their email.