NQIG News

Friday, July 15, 2005

QPopper and Server Certificates

Server Status: Up

Server Notes
I have added POP3 and SPOP3 to Motoko. You still cannot use her to send e-mail by any means other than her webmail interface (Or your ISP's SMTP server,) but regardless of this fact, you can CHECK your e-mail via either of these two interfaces.

Additionally, Motoko's server certificate has changed. She now uses an OFFICIAL cert issued by CAcert.org. What this means to you guys is that you need a new Root CA (If you don't already have one) To get this, goto their website and click the link under Miscellaneous called Root Cerificate. There, download the certificate (you probably want the PEM version). Then add it to your browser's trusted authorities list. In Firefox you do this by going to Tools/Options ,select Advanced, goto Certificates, click the Manager Certificates button, select the authorities tab, click the Import button, and then select the certificate file.

Verify that the certificate you got wasn't tampered with by selecting the view button and comparing the SHA1 Fingerprint against "13:5c:ec:36:f4:9c:b8:e9:3b:1a:b2:70:cd:80:88:46:76:ce:8f:33". (It's called the "thumbprint" in IE and doesn't have the colons, and case isn't important) next select all the different trusts you want (You'll need to at least trust them for web sites for Motoko) and press OK.

At this point: Presto! Login to your e-mail with no more certificate warnings.