Mon Mar 2 21:34:01 EET 2009

Remember Domain Mismatch

Recently I came up to an ugly problem. The HAN university where I study is filtering the 995 port therefore I could not login to gmail, via gmails POP3 SSLed connection. Thus I configured an rdist which is a tiny soft which makes lives easier when you have to set up a port forwarding. I configured my Debian Icedove to use the host where I had rdist running. Everything worked almost fine except an ugly message appeared warning me that I'm accepting certificate from a gmail host which is different from the host where Thunderbird is connecting. The message appearing was: "Domain Name Mismatch". I looked the net to find a solution also played a bit with Icedove itself. Eventually I came along a nice small thunderbird plugin which did the trick for me. The add-on is called "Remember Mismatch Domains" and when activated does add a field on the window with the warning offering a way to save the warning and thus preventing it to occur again :)