Re: Netscape SSL with IMAP problem

2000-12-07 Thread Oscar Jacobsson
"Michael T. Babcock" wrote: > I believe I once saw on the Equifax site that they use signing certificates signed > by Thawte -- so its possible that their certificate is not in the browser but that > the browser can verify the Equifax certificate against the Thawte cert, and then > verify yours ag

Re: Netscape SSL with IMAP problem

2000-12-07 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Jason Keltz wrote: > Can someone explain why the server has to pass along the certificates from > the CAs though? I don't quite understand. I'm new to this all. Isn't it > up to the server to send out just the certificate, and then up to the > client to do the checks? I mean, isn't it counter

Re: Netscape SSL with IMAP problem

2000-12-07 Thread Oscar Jacobsson
Jason Keltz wrote: > Can someone explain why the server has to pass along the certificates from > the CAs though? I don't quite understand. I'm new to this all. Isn't it > up to the server to send out just the certificate, and then up to the > client to do the checks? On one side, it's becaus

Re: Netscape SSL with IMAP problem

2000-12-07 Thread Jason Keltz
Lutz -- you rock!! That fixed the problem!! Can someone explain why the server has to pass along the certificates from the CAs though? I don't quite understand. I'm new to this all. Isn't it up to the server to send out just the certificate, and then up to the client to do the checks? I mean

Re: Netscape SSL with IMAP problem

2000-12-07 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:17:11AM -0500, Jason Keltz wrote: > Finally, if I try to connect to the IMAP SSL server with Netscape > Communicator v4.75 and v6 -- the *SAME* Netscape Communicator that talks > to our SSL enabled web server without complaining suddenly says that it > does not does not

Netscape SSL with IMAP problem

2000-12-07 Thread Jason Keltz
Hi.. My department has purchased two certificates from Equifax Secure -- one for our SSL-enabled web server (www.cs.yorku.ca), and the other for our SSL-enabled IMAP mail server (mail.cs.yorku.ca). For the web server, we are using Apache 1.3.14 + SSL 1.42. For IMAP, we are using University of Wa