In The Next Version

Starting with Notes 7, secure links are handled in a way that helps ensure the sites that your client connects to, are ones that you trust.  This will help reduce the odds of accidently executing malicious code that spammers are embedding into email these days like spyware and trojan horses.

For example, I recently opened an email from Amazon.com which contained a link to a secure server that I had not yet established a trusted relationship with.  You can see in the image below that Notes displayed a red box in place of the Amazon Logo image and warned me via a dialog box that the internet certificate is not trusted.



Since I had just ordered books from Amazon, I felt confident that this was a real email message and I could trust it, so I clicked "Yes" to take corrective action.  Notes then prompted me to connect to the secure link:



and then once the connection was established I was asked to issue the Cross Certificate:



With those steps complete, my Notes client now trusted the secure link, and the logo was properly displayed in the document.



Once you have established trust with a site, you will not get prompted again.   So in this example, I would not have to follow the procedure above each time I open an email from Amazon again.


Advanced part of this tip...

How did I know the Amazon.com Logo image was pointing to a secure link?   Looking at the email's HTML source code via View - Page Source, I could see the https://



If you would like to see the certificate that was accepted, it is stored in your Personal Name and Address Book in the "Advanced - Certificates" view, under Internet Cross Certificates.


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