IMAP connection fails (university server)

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to connect my university email account to Mailspring on Windows 10.

Connection fails with the following log:

----------IMAP---------- connect <mailcore::IMAPSession:001DF970> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=PLAIN ID ACL RIGHTS=kxten QUOTA NAMESPACE UIDPLUS XLIST SPECIAL-USE IDLE BM-ROCKS] perdition ready on bm-perdition.univ-montp3.fr 000387f1 ssl connect jade.univ-montp3.fr 993 2 OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.0f 25 May 2017 Verification failed: X509_verify_cert_error_string: unable to get local issuer certificate X509_get_subject_name: ssl connect certificate ERROR 2

Until recently I was using thunderbird to read my emails and the connection to this email adresse worked there. But I don’t know how to make it work on mailspring, that I would like to use from now on.

Thanks in advance for any help :folded_hands:
Laura

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I’m honestly not sure what your issue is. I was able to use curl and connect without any certificate issues.

curl -v imaps://jade.univ-montp3.fr
* Host jade.univ-montp3.fr:993 was resolved.
* IPv6: (none)
* IPv4: 193.52.142.211
*   Trying 193.52.142.211:993...
* schannel: disabled automatic use of client certificate
* Connected to jade.univ-montp3.fr (193.52.142.211) port 993
* schannel: remote party requests renegotiation
* schannel: renegotiating SSL/TLS connection
* schannel: SSL/TLS connection renegotiated
* schannel: remote party requests renegotiation
* schannel: renegotiating SSL/TLS connection
* schannel: SSL/TLS connection renegotiated
< * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=PLAIN ID ACL RIGHTS=kxten QUOTA NAMESPACE UIDPLUS XLIST SPECIAL-USE IDLE BM-ROCKS] perdition ready on bm-perdition.univ-montp3.fr 000387f1
> A001 CAPABILITY
< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=PLAIN ID ACL RIGHTS=kxten QUOTA NAMESPACE UIDPLUS XLIST SPECIAL-USE IDLE BM-ROCKS
< A001 OK CAPABILITY
> A002 LIST "" *
< A002 BAD Unrecognised command, mate
* shutting down connection #0
curl: (21) Quote command returned error
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Thank so much for trying it! Could you let me know how you configured it please ?

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I’m going to be honest, I wouldn’t use Mailspring for anything outside of Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, or other services. Outside of that, Mailspring is not great in terms of compatibility IMHO. If it doesn’t work out of the box, I would try Thunderbird, which has more active support and a larger community.