received an email which looks suspicious asking for all users to:  is this legit.


Dear Mail User,
As part of the security measures to secure all email users across the world,All email users are mandated to have their account details registered as requested by the Microsoft Cyber-Crime Dept ( M C D ) .You are here by required to validate your account within 24 hours so as not to have your email account suspended and deleted from the world email server.
To get started, please click the link below:
https://login.com/config/login_verify2?.intl=us&.src=ym
This instruction has been sent to all Webmail Users Worldwide and is obligatory to follow.
Thank you,
Copyright © 2012 Microsoft Inc. All rights reserved. .

It appears that Outlook 2011 (up to date with patches) will not receive mail from a server with a self-signed (and therefore not trusted) certificate. When I send mail I am prompted to trust it or not: This works, but when Outlook is quit and relaunched, the trusted state is forgotten (this might be a problem with Apple Keychain).  It's an annoyance, but at least I can send mail.

In receiving, I am not prompted at all, and no mail arrives. No error is written to the Errors window. Also, when sending or receiving, Outlook usually has a progress indicator in the lower right.  It's there for sending, but nothing happens at all when I click "send & receive" and there's nothing to send.

When I select Tools > IMAP Folders, the server appears on the left, but no folders appear on the right. (I can view them in Apple Mail.) I have compared my settings to a document I maintain of email server settings, and everything matches. The server does not use nonstandard port numbers.

And finally, I noted that when I view the settings in the Preferences window there is a yellow dot next to the server name. I'm assuming that yellow means a problem is indicated.