imap.gmail.com returning self signed certificate with Alpine

Question

I am setting up Alpine for Gmail and followed the steps from https://askubuntu.com/questions/130899/how-can-i-configure-alpine-to-read-my-gmail-in-ubuntu

I entered the field as Server: imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/user=<me>@gmail.com and it shows me the error message as pasted below

Also I can't find any info on why this should not work? Should imap.gmail.com be returning a self signed certificate? I don't have 2FA enabled on gmail.

I am on Alpine 2.21.99

Error message:

There was a failure validating the SSL/TLS certificate for the server

                                   imap.gmail.com

    The reason for the failure was

                         self signed certificate (details)

Answer 1

You'll likely need to add the "no validate" option, like this:

{imap.gmail.com/ssl/NoValidate-Cert/[email protected]}

I have tried it and it works, but the idea is not mine