Q: When retrieving mail I get "The Identity of "mail.me.com" cannot be verified"
My mail has worked fine for years.
I recently installed Mavericks. I have a Macbook Air.
Now suddenly when it tries to get mail I get the message, "The Identity of "mail.me.com" cannot be verified"
I can tell it to ignore the certificate and go get the mail anyway, but it is a nusiance to have to do this every time.
What is wrong?
How do I stop that message and get back to normal?
Posted on Jan 14, 2014 5:15 AM
I have just been talking directly to Apple and may have a good and simple solution.
When the message ("The Identity of "mail.me.com" cannot be verified") appears it is because I mostly using the old @mac.com and not the newer @me.com or @icloud.com. Apparently it doesn't like to older certificate for @mac.com
The solution that has been recommended is to click, 'Show Certificate' and there, just under the padlock is a check box labled, "always trust mail.mac.com when connecting to mail.me.com"
Check that box and the problem should go away.
I have to wait until I get the error again, and it is late so I probably won't try it till tomorrow, but it seems so obvious and she seemed so sure, that I am confident that it will work.
I hope others can profit from this if they have similar problems. I will mark this as solved when I have tried it and am sure it works.
Thanks to all,
Posted on Jan 20, 2014 11:32 AM



