INTERNET SECURITY WARNING

[Barbie]

I’m running Windows XP SP3, using Outlook 2002 for email. Every time I open
Outlook or hit send/receive I get the following: INTERNET SECURITY WARNING
The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that could
not be verified. The certificates CN name does not match the passed value. Do
you want to continue using this server. Yes/no. I select yes and the mail
downloads as normal or is sent as normal. But each and every time I hit
send/receive this pop-up appears.

I started receiving this error message about a week ago. Would really
welcome any suggestions that might fix this problem.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Which mail account type are you using?
Where is the security certificate referring to? To you corporate mail
account perhaps?

Run Windows Update and choose to do a Custom update. In the Optional
updates, check if there is an update for root certificates which you haven't
installed yet.

 

[VanguardLH]

I¢m running Windows XP SP3, using Outlook 2002 for email. Every time I open
Outlook or hit send/receive I get the following: INTERNET SECURITY WARNING
The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that could
not be verified. The certificates CN name does not match the passed value. Do
you want to continue using this server. Yes/no. I select yes and the mail
downloads as normal or is sent as normal. But each and every time I hit
send/receive this pop-up appears.

I started receiving this error message about a week ago. Would really
welcome any suggestions that might fix this problem.

It probably means - although you didn't mention it - that you are using
SSL for connects to the mail host. The SSL certificate for the domain
has expired or they are stupidly using a cert for the wrong domain
(i.e., it's for their main domain but not for their mail host's domain).
You could inform them of the SSL cert problem since the cert probably
expired and they didn't insert a new one. Or you could stop using SSL
and revert back to non-SSL connects (which means your login credentials
get sent as plain text and could be sniffed from your network traffic).