This scheme worked fine a long time ago when I set up gmail. Recently, Yahoo! went to SSL so I tried the same trick while reconfiguring, and I can't get a connection to Spamihilator.
Today, I get a prompted for a certificate. I believe Spamihilator is not responding to the request for a certificate. (Of course, after Windows gets the self-signed certificate from
Spamihilator, I will have to approve it as an exception due to the lack of a valid CA chain.)
To demonstrate this, I've defined a server name Spamihilator in my HOSTS file:
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127.0.0.1 Spamihilator
Next I configure Thunderbird to use it:
Then I try to fetch mail, and the windows opens:
Clicking on "Get Certificate" does nothing.
"Confirm Security Exception" is greyed out.
Suggestions, please?
PS: Changing the server name to 127.0.0.1 works, but then I've had a certificate from Spamihilator for 127.0.0.1 in my store for a very long time.
This problems occurs on Win7, but not XP.