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Consumer Products => Avast Mac Security => Topic started by: sejtam on August 13, 2012, 10:30:41 AM

Title: SSL cert not found for Microsoft 365 (outlook.com)
Post by: sejtam on August 13, 2012, 10:30:41 AM

My son's school changed hosted email from Google apps to Microsoft 365.

With imap.googlemail.com and smtp.googlemail.com, avast Mail shield (for mac, latest version) was abel to scan the mail.

This fails for the MS servers (pod*..outlook.com where * is a number), apparently because the certs signing the MS
server certs are not in his Mac's keychain.

Just opening the Mail Shiels Prefs and adding the pod*.outlook.com to the known SSL servers is NOT sufficient.


My question is: where do I get the relevant cert and how to install it?

Managing this gets to be a real pain.

Title: Re: SSL cert not found for Microsoft 365 (outlook.com)
Post by: sejtam on August 13, 2012, 10:37:33 AM

/var/log/system.log reports:
Aug 13 16:33:13 vademacumpro proxy[60]: No common name matching host name (pod51024.outlook.com) found in peer certificate!

Title: Re: SSL cert not found for Microsoft 365 (outlook.com)
Post by: sejtam on August 15, 2012, 05:50:00 AM

No-one? How do I find out where to get the certs for SSL IMAP servers that I need to add?

Title: Re: SSL cert not found for Microsoft 365 (outlook.com)
Post by: tumic on August 15, 2012, 11:31:11 AM

There is no wildcard CN entry *.outlook.com in the certificate, so you have to use outlook.com, not pod51024.outlook.com as the server name.