TBird dialog asks to change email server - to what it already is!
I have attached image files for the dialog asking me to change my server info, and the dialog showing the current setup. I got the first dialog when trying to send a message. I was able to make it go away by clicking Cancel. I repeated the attempt to send and the dialog popped up again. I send the email from a different source and it worked. I immediately tried to send another email and it worked.
On other machines (lunux mint) I got the same message but had to kill the process to recover.
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yeah, your server is incorrectly setup. That you think you should be able to ignore a security warning in in itself somewhat alarming to me.
You are being presented with a security warning that the server mail.boppie.com is trying to represent itself as something else. A quick check shows that the server mail.boppie.com is identifying itself as boppie.com when it sends out it's TLS certificate. A certificate that expired two days ago.
So you have two issues.
The server certificate has expired. So there will be no secure connection to the web site until it is fixed. Take a trip here with your browser. https://boppie.com/ and note the error. Not that it really matters at this time as you have no web site there anyway.
The second is the mail server is configured to use the same certificate without you having purchased a multi domain or extended server certificate. So the use of FTP. Mail. SMTP. etc before the boppie.com domain name will generate errors. You can add manual exceptions to the certificate store for things like mail (that is why there is a button on the error message) if you are the only one using it. If you have employees, it is extremely bad business practice to tell them to add exceptions. it is the unknowing doing things like that that opens doors for ransomeware etc. to enter your machine or network.