IMAP on the Nokia 3650
February 4th, 2004
With a minimum of effort I was able to configure the built-in messaging application on my Nokia 3650 smartphone to work with my home IPAP server. Connectivity isn’t the fastest, however, it works surprisingly well and being able to access and manage my personal email while on the go is handy. Going direct to my own mail server is way more convenient than screwing around with the email gateway / portal my wireless provider provides.
So far the only issue I have been unable to resolve is making a secure IMAP connection to a server (like mine) with a self-signed server certificate. So far I haven’t found out how to update the list of certificate authorities that the phone accepts as valid.
Wow you know you really sound like a geek! But I guess since you set up email for me too, I shouldn’t criticize…besides, you’re my geek and I love you
I found a document at the Nokia developer site about loading certs.
It appears that you have to use the WAP browser and there’s a
particular MIME type that the file has to be.
My phone does accept my self-signed TLS cert, but it pops up a dialog everytime I want to connect. I can live with that as long as the session gets encrypted.