Mike Sheinberg on 12 Apr 2011 08:03:01 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Droid and IMAP

I am currently using a self-signed IMAP server on my Droid and unfortunately I remember having to 'accept any certificate' someplace in the email settings (I believe). Not the most elegant solution but I believe this is only a setting for the email client and not for the whole system (cause I've got security warnings on other HTTPS websites since then).

-Mike

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> He thinks it might be because the SSL cert for the server is self-signed.  Does
> this seem reasonable?  I told him to ask Verizon to delineate the cert
> authorities they recognize.  Also, can one add a cert authority to the Droid?

Adding SSL certs to Android phones is fairly painful.

You need to first root your phone.  Then you need to copy a file
containing the keystore to your PC.  Then you need to use some
java-based certificate manipulation tools to add the desired CA to the
keystore, and then you need to push the file back onto your phone
(after making /system writable).  There are directions on the net, and
also an issue you can feel free to star on the bug tracker, along with
the other 5000 people who have it starred.

Some of the other suggestions in this thread may also work for you -
especially the K-9 setting for making the phone less fussy with
certificates.  It would be nice to be able to manually add
certificates as trusted so that you don't have to bypass the checking
entirely.

Rich
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