Thanks, David.

I realized what happened, but I wasn't certain if the renewal process updates my deuced Mac(hina) unilaterally or I've got to take action on my end.

It sounds like you're saying that when Verizon gets their act together my certificate will be updated from their end.

And I still don't understand why OS X took more than 5 weeks to realize that the certificate had expired. confused

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