How to disable Outlook for checking for IMAP/POP3 Certificate Name Mismatch?

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I have outlook clients that are connected to an IMAP/POP3 server that's off-site provided by company A.

Company A requires me to enter imap.companya.com for imap server address and 993 for the port.

I must also enable SSL for the connection.

When I do this, Outlook pops up an error message (shown below), that must be reacted to every time it checks for mail.

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The reason is that the certificate is for myserver.companya123.com and that's different than imap.companya.com but company A wont change it. They said I need to disable my email programs certificate check so it doesn't keep prompting me. Now I can do this with my iphone, and other email programs without incident. But I cannot find where to disable it in outlook.

If I change the imap server address in my account settings for outlook to instead use myserver.company a123.com, outlook can't connect and as the vendor said I must use imap.companya.com as the imap server address.

I need to be able to connect via SSL (so nobody can swipe my password over the wire) but not have to react 1000x a day to the certificate warnings.

I don't want to use Eudora, or another email client that allows me to easily disable the warning. I want to use outlook. How do I set outlook so it doesn't keep popping up these certificate server name mismatch warnings?

I spent days searching for a fix, and it seems there are fixes via the registry for just about every type of certificate issue, but NOT THIS PARTICULAR ONE.

I am hoping someone knows exactly what I am talking about and knows of a easy fix. I must use SSL so please don't tell me to disable SSL.



What I need is to disable outlook from presenting that alert. That's what I need to do. No other solution will suffice. I hope outlook does not have a product limitation that prevents such a thing from being done. I am ok with a registry fix if need be, but being able to disable outlook from presenting certificate name mismatch alerts is critical. Hope its possible! Thanks!

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