just played around with this. i was very thankful for the info. one thing, at least on the latest versions of panther. if you wait more than a couple seconds to try and drag the file proxy out, it will freeze Mail.app. took a while for me to figure that out and almost gave up on it. hope this tid bit helps out someone else who is frustrated by this apparent retarded behavior in Mail.app.

oh, so that is it! Duh! I've been wondering for ages and never figured out, why sometimes, on some machines it worked and sometimes not! Thanks a lot, Ted. I'll add it to the recipe!

i have a related issue: my domain is hosted by a provider who has a valid certificate, but the domain on the cert and the domain where i check my e-mail differs. so, installing the cert in this way does not help me. you think there's a way i can get around this???

thanks!