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I had this problem after upgrading my Hero to Android 2.1

I previously had an imap mailbox working fine, with an SSL connection, but setting it up again under 2.1 seemed to get me nowhere.
After going to manual setup and entering the incoming server details, clicking continue would simply take me back to the same page – not to the next ‘configure outgoing mailserver’ screen.

Since HTC pushed out the over the air upgrade for the Hero in the last few days, I guess a lot of people may now be in the same boat

It turns out this is a bug – really at this point, android should be showing the ‘accept certificate’ dialog, in cases where you don’t have a signed certificate on your mailserver

The good news is – there is a workaround.

Simply put in an incorrect value for the imap server first time around
Android will tell you that it can’t connect to the server – but will still let you proceed and add an outgoing mail server etc, and finish configuring the account.

Then, when the account is configured, simply go to the account settings and enter a correct server.
This time, Android should correctly show the ‘accept certificate’ dialog, and you should be able to proceed as normal.

Thank goodness for this workaround! I was getting seriously worried my new 2.1 Hero wouldn’t work with my email server.

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