Security Warning: The Server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified. The Target principal name is incorrect
justhost is a hosting service provider and if you/your company host your mail services on their non-dedicated servers, this umbrella wildcard certificate will be used to secure the connection.
There's a limitation in SSL/TLS that the host name the client is connecting to is not revealed to the server until a secure socket has been established. This means the server must blindly supply a default certificate which is the "*.justhost.com" you saw.
Thus if you access the mail server through your company's alias domain, e.g. mail.company.com, a certificate subject mismatch will occur. You could use the following steps to find the correct domain to use:
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ping
your mail server to get its IP address - Use
nslookup
or whois to get the host name of the server. The host name should end with "justhost.com", which is covered by the wildcard certificate. - Replace the POP/IMAP server and SMTP server address with the host name in Outlook
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mani_007
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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mani_007 over 1 year
I'm trying to get my mails using Outlook 2007 and POP3 using SSL but I get this security warning every time I try to receive mails:
The Server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified. The Target principal name is incorrect.
When I open the certificate I see this message in the first tab (General):
All the intended purposes of this certificate could not be verified.
Issued by: GeoTrust SSL CA
Issued to: *.justhost.comwhich is one of the trusted providers.
Do you think it's a man in the middle attack or a security risk? Or is it just a kind of a certificate error that I can ignore?