451159 - self-signed certificates can't be accepted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 429843

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Mitra Ardron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080818030015 Shredder/3.0b1pre

When sending email via a site with a self-signed certificate an error is generated. 

mail.path.net:465 uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed.
(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)

None of the buttons I've seen before to allow accepting this as an exception are there, which means its not possible to send email via this SMTP server. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set SMTP server to site with self-signed certificate
2. Compose and send email
3.



While some might argue that the sysadmin should fix this, many won't - partly because of the cost of signed certificates. 

As to its seriousness, its major to me - since I can't send email any more!