209299 - Security Certificate needs "Accept This Certificate Always" featureMismatch

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 228684

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

Certificate mismatch seems to be a "given" when trying to send email to a server
using SSl.  How about adding a button which says: "Always accept this
certificate from this site even if there is a site mismatch"?

This would sure make life easier.
Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try and send email to a SSL server and most of them seem to have a certificate
from the manufacturer of the email software instead of from the mail server user
site.  If so,  a dialog box appears telling you of a certificate mismatch each
time you try and send an email.  Once would be enough.
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
Have an "accept this certificate always" button.

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

Enhancement. Actually, the proper solution is for the email administrator to use
a properly configured cert.

Comment 2

[Joe Mehaffey]

Unfortunately... email USERS usually have no control whatsoever over what
certificates (if any) are used for SSL mail by any particular ISP or mail server.  

I wish it was not so.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205677 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205677 ***

Comment 4

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

I don't believe this is actually a dupe of 205677 as it was resolved wfm since it was intended behavior, but this is asking for an enhancement. Reopening in light of 363345.