I need to get into T-bird, and I believe I've clicked on Confirm Security Exception in the past. Have I been right in doing so? It seems odd that Hotmail would still turn up a message like this.
No idea, if your settings are correct. That's why I posted the link to the Hotmail KB article.
Are you using Thunderbird 3.1.11 or 5.0? If the former it can't hurt to upgrade using the help menu in case there some weird configuration specific bug that effects this was fixed. I'm using 3.1.11, 5.0 and 7.0alpha with the same profile and don't have this problem so I'd assume the problem is somehow specific to your system.
I just looked at the certificates in Thunderbird. I went into Tools > Account Settings > Hotmail > Security > View Certificates. The entry for this one says "Microsoft Secure Server Authority." The address is debug-pop3.live.com. The server is pop3.live.com:995. A search doesn't turn up much for this. See http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl= ... =&aql=&oq=
I don't have any entries for Hotmail when viewing certificates. I wouldn't expect a SSL certificate to be listed, they're normally not stored permanently.
Perhaps you need to delete the certificate for debug-pop3.live.com. That might be confusing Thunderbird. What tab is it listed under? The only tab that I have any entries under is authorities.
Spoke too soon. The problem has been continuing. Any ideas?
One possibility: I am using Thunderbird 3.1.14, and the webpage on configuring Hotmail (http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en- ... nd-hotmail) tells me to uncheck the "Use Secure Authentication" option. I don't see that option. Is it hiding somewhere?
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