server's certificate did not match its hostname

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From: Nancy McGough
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:04

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My magoo.com account was just migrated from Best to the new Verio
system and whenever I try to use SSL or TLS I get a message about
the server certificate not matching the hostname. I've tried
specifying magoo.com, which is what Verio suggests, and
www.magoo.com and with both I have this problem. Does anyone know
what hostname the certificate is looking for? I have this problem
using Opera with HTTPS and using Mulberry and Pine with SSL/TLS.
In Pine, I can avoid the warning by using the qualifier

 /novalidate-cert

but this is VERY unsafe (as Mark Crispin recently said in
comp.mail.pine). One of the things I have been looking forward to
on the new system is being able to have a secure IMAP connection
without doing ssh port forwarding, which is what I have been
doing.

Thanks for any tips or pointers to where I can find out this
information,
Nancy

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Nancy McGough         <http://www.ii.com/>         Infinite Ink
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From: Nancy McGough <nm-this-address-is-valid@no.sp.am>
Newsgroups: best.general,verio.ncal.general
Subject: server's certificate did not match its hostname
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:04:01 +0000
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