My work has just set up external access to its IMAP server, so that I can work as easily from home as the office. Excellent.
The external access is secured with a self-signed SSL certificate. Unless you import the certificate into your Keychain you get endless annoying error messages. And importing it wasn’t as easy as you might expect.
In the end, I offered to write up a walk-through for other Mac users in the College, and I’m posting it here too. It’s all documented in Apple Mail’s help file under “I’m getting a certificate-related error message” but visual learners will appreciate the pictures.
How to accept a self-signed SSL certificate in Mail.app permanently (with screenshots) after the jump.
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Tags:
Apple Mail,
external access,
imap,
mail.app,
SSL,
SSL certificate
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