Computing Bulletin of August 24, 2009

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New Security Certificate installed on Haverford Email Server

To:  All Haverford Community Members
From:  Academic Computing Center, College Information Resources (via S. Strauss)
Subject:  New Security Certificate installed on Haverford Email Server
Date:  August 24, 2009

On Friday, August 14, Networking and Systems installed a new security certificate on Haverford's IMAP mail server. Since then, some users have reported getting a message about accepting a certificate when checking their email. If you are getting such a message, you can check the option to “accept this certificate permanently.”

(Note: Below is a screen shot from Thunderbird running on Vista. Other configurations may result in a slightly different version of this window.)

After that, you may get another window stating that “Mail server imap.haverford.edu is not an IMAP4 mail server.” Click OK.

HELP

If you have any questions, please contact the Computing Help Desk:
Telephone: 610-896-1480
Email: helpdesk@haverford.edu

ACC EMAIL POLICY

ACC will never request passwords or other confidential information via email. Email is not secure. We will never email an executable file. Instead, if we ask you to take action, we will always refer you to our web site, using an address that starts with the secure "https" protocol -- that way, you know you are downloading a safe file from us.

VERIFY THIS ALERT IS LEGITIMATE

Before taking an action recommended in an email, please confirm that the email is legitimate. ACC posts a detailed description of all our alerts on our web site, https://www.haverford.edu/acc/bulletins/.  This alert is posted at https://www.haverford.edu/acc/bulletins/20090824.html.