We're getting an expired SSL certificate error using Mail under Mac OSX and are wondering if anyone can help figure out the problem. We get the following error from Mail:
Mail was unable to verify the identity of this server, which has a certificate issued to "www.westerndepot.com". The error was:
The root certificate for this server could not be verified.
You might be connecting to a computer that is pretending to be "www.westerndepot.com", and putting your confidential information at risk. Would you like to continue anyway?
When we view the certificate it shows that it expired on September 7, 2013.
The thing is, we use a certificate issued by Comodo, it doesn't expire until 2018, and it is working fine using any web browser. We use a custom template file for httpd.conf to set the proper settings to use the certificate and the included certificate authority file. The relevant code in the final httpd.conf file is as follows:
# modSSL{CertificateChainFile} not set
SSLCertificateFile /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/wdserver.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/e-smith/ssl.key/wdserver.key
SSLCACertificatePath /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/
SSLCACertificateFile /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/www_westerndepot_com.ca-bundle
SSLCertificateChainFile /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/www_westerndepot_com.ca-bundle
Mail is properly set up to use authentication and SSL on port 25 from the fully qualified domain name as required by SME 8.0 and didn't have any problems sending email until the certificate expired. Obviously I need to get email on our SME Server 8.0 to look at the correct certificate files since it is apparently set to use the automatically generated certificate from SME Server rather than the certificate we purchased. The question is where do I create the custom template file to do this, what should I name it and what commands need to be placed in the custom template file? I'm guessing that Mail is talking to qpsmtpd and not qmail when it sends messages but that is about as far as I can get. I'm hoping that someone here on the forums can help us fix the problem.