Certificate Problems in Apple Mail on Monterey

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Monterey. It is some problem with that host.

When I searched for this issue, the only meaningful hit was this information on a strange, foreign language web site:

Mail SSL/TLS Support!

PowWeb now supports SSL and/or TLS in the following ways on the new platform:

POP with SSL : port 995

IMAP with SSL : port 993

* The sole caveat for using POP or IMAP with SSL is that using mail.domain.com will result in the security certificate mismatch. To avoid this, use pop.powweb.com or imap.powweb.com instead.

SMTP with TLS : port 25 and 587

* The sole caveat for SMTP with TLS is that the SMTP server must be set to smtp.yourhostingaccount.com to avoid the security warning. NOTE: Do not substitute yourhostingaccount.com for anything else; use smtp.yourhostingaccount.com explicitly.

Thank you for choosing PowWeb!

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Tom S.

PowWeb / Endurance Staff

I have no idea what this means. I found one other result that is readable (en français) but still references powweb

My guess is that their service is all hacked up and you will have to manually override this certificate, with the incorrect host name, to make it work. I recommend a different e-mail provider.

I found that on a strange, foreign language site that was otherwise about car racing or something. I have no reason to doubt it. The internet is bigger now, but it still works the same way. Bad ideas have always been shared.

I can assure you there is nothing wrong with Apple Mail. There are maybe 80 million people using Apple Mail. Most of those people use a major email provider like Apple, Microsoft, or Google. You are using Fat Cow. Do the math.