On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:47:03 -0600 Randy <na...@afxr.net> wrote: > I'm hoping to reach out to google's gmail engineers with this message, > Today I noticed that for the past 3 days, email messages from my > personal website's pop3 were not being received into my gmail inbox. > Naturally, I figured that my pop3 service was down, but after some > checking, every thing was working OK. I then checked gmail settings, and > noticed some error. > It explained that google is no longer accepting self signed ssl > certificates. It claims that this change will "offer[s] a higher level > of security to better protect your information". > I don't believe that this change offers better security. In fact it is > now unsecured - I am unable to use ssl with gmail, I have had to select > the plain-text pop3 option. > > I don't have hundreds of dollars to get my ssl certificates signed, and > to top it off, gmail never notified me of an error with fetching my > mail. How many of email accounts trying to grab mail are failing now? I > bet thousands, as a self signed certificate is a valid way of encrypting > the traffic.
http://www.startssl.com/ Their certs are free and, from what I hear, are accepted by Google. -- John
