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Email Notification Links Not Working - Cert Error

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240vPlug

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Feb 3, 2021
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I receive the following error when clicking on view thread from withing the mail notification.

NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

Here is a screenshot of the error. Has been happening for the past 48hr or so.

Screenshot_20221220-064426.png
 
There's definitely a difference between the www.teslamotorsclub.com and email.teslamotorsclub.com SSL certificates, which the second having an invalid certificate currently because the server name isn't listed in the SAN section of the certificate.

I don't quite know why, but when I click on a link in my email client, I don't get a SSL certificate error, but if I try to go directly to the same server at https://email.teslamotorsclub.com, I get a certificate/SSL error. This is on macOS Ventura. Maybe Apple has programmed Safari on macOS to be a little sloppier on checking certificates on clicked links. I'm pretty sure I didn't add an exception on my Mac.

Oddly enough, on my iPhone, I get a similar certificate error like the one from the OP, presumably obtained on an Android phone.

The current SSL certificates are as follows:

www.teslamotorsclub.com
Serial Number:
0a:3b:7b:8e:02:49:43:73:df:7a:98:7f:f5:07:6a:15
Validity
Not Before: May 18 00:00:00 2022 GMT
Not After : May 18 23:59:59 2023 GMT
Subject: C=US, ST=California, L=San Francisco, O=Cloudflare, Inc., CN=sni.cloudflaressl.com
X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
DNS:teslamotorsclub.com, DNS:*.teslamotorsclub.com, DNS:sni.cloudflaressl.com

email.teslamotorsclub.com
Serial Number:
04:23:ce:88:a8:e5:64:23:39:70:44:e4:a9:4e:bf:40:32:15
Validity
Not Before: Nov 16 13:35:11 2022 GMT
Not After : Feb 14 13:35:10 2023 GMT
Subject: CN=mailgun.org
X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
DNS:mailgun.org

The SAN section on the second certificate doesn't list either email.teslamotorsclub.com or *.teslamotorsclub.com, which is why some browsers are throwing SSL certificate errors when trying to open the links sent in emails.