Hi,
slightly off-topic. Do some of you use apple mail on iCloud (mac.com,
me.com, icloud.com) from older Macs?
I noticed in the past months/years that apple made several of my macs
stop connection. At first I ignored it, since I used those computers
less, but then when it tropped 10.9 first and 10.11 later it got me,
especially since the MacBook Pro 15" with 10.11 is one of my favourite
Macs and in Daily use.
Could it be missing certificates? Expired certificates? It is
interesting that iCloud still connects, AddressBook and Calendar still
do sync, but not Mail. Yet Apple Mail at the end is based in SMTP!
I thought of upgrading certificates using apple-pki-bundle (enabled it
with the true hack)
I installed it and installed both
sudo
/opt/local/share/apple-pki-bundle/bin/pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh
/opt/local/share/apple-pki-bundle/apple-pki-bundle.pem
plus I repeated the procedure with exported Catalina certificates (the
latest I could get hands on... not new anymore, but there Apple Mail
works fine)
It is still not enough. Possibly worth the effort for future use and
dowloads, but no help for Mail.
I wonder if apple added some kind of "version" check in the mail
protocol to refules Mail connections? It makes no technical sense, but
could be an imposed marketing limitation?
Riccardo
