[MlMt] Trouble connecting to iCloud (certificate validation)

Raphaël Fauveau raphael.fauveau at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 02:32:07 EDT 2015


Same issue here. It’s infrequent, but annoyingly enough to make me 
wonder why this happens with MailMate only (never happened with Mail or 
Airmail before).

On 18 Aug 2015, at 4:29, Scott A. McIntyre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> <aluminium_hat>
>
> For the past few months, every now and again when MailMate tries to 
> talk to Apple's iCloud email infrastructure, a certificate validation 
> error occurs.
>
> The certificate that MailMate reports is a wildcard for *.mail.me.com, 
> signed by Symantec ("Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4"), with a 
> serial number of 11 04 0c 72 fb d3 37 73 1f f4 f0 dc b3 c0 e7 17.
>
> The error in MailMate/OS X is "This certificate was signed by an 
> unknown authority".
>
> In my Keychain Manager I have a "Symantec Class 3 Public Primary 
> Certification Authority - G4" -- not quite the identical name, but, 
> I'm grabbing this from the pop-up that appears when MailMate connects, 
> and signing versus issuing may account for a slight discrepancy.
>
> Decades of doing what I do for my day-job has me just paranoid enough 
> to raise an eyebrow on this one.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
> </aluminium_hat>
>
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