Gmail.. Of all Mailservers

Posted by drethemadrapper on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:16AM
from the self-post dept.

<<I can't access my gmail acct.>> Could this disruption always be happening to the world honeypot?

:::Message on Firefox::: You have asked Firefox to connect securely to mail.google.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure. Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.

What Should I Do? If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.

     mail.google.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate will not be valid until 2/07/2015 5:18 AM. The current time is 23/06/2015 11:38 AM.

(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)

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Re:Gmail.. Of all Mailservers by jcr on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:27AM (#9876977)

> "The current time is 23/06/2015 11:38 AM."

If that is your _system_ time, then you need to set your system time properly.

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Re:Gmail.. Of all Mailservers by codepeach on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:40AM (#9877001)

Yep, certs have valid from and to dates, not just expiry :)

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Re:Gmail.. Of all Mailservers by drethemadrapper on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:55AM (#9877787)

Everything is fine with my infrastructure - network (active dir.) & PC time, e.t.c.. It might have in a different geographic area to the Google servers/CDNs though. One would never have expected this kind of weird error/notification with Google services. I am thinking many other users will be encountering such frustration.

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