Apple Mail no longer working with iCloud on G4 with Sorbet Leopard?

[Power G-Man]

Hello fellow G4 users!
On both of my 2 G4s, running Sorbet Leopard, Apple Mail stopped working late June 2025. Has been working flawless for years, running app-specific passwords.

The error message says that there is a SSL problem - unable to establish a secure connection.

Did Apple change anything on the server side?

What can I do? Any tips on how to make this work again?
Miss my fully functioning G4s and would like to restore the Mail function.

Thank you!

 

[barracuda156]

I am surprised it worked on 10.5.8 at all until recently.

There are three modern mail apps that should work on Leopard: sylpheed, claws-mail and nmail (the last one CLI, other two GUI). Perhaps try any of those. My ports have newer versions and fixed sylpheed, claws-mail and nmail will probably work in versions which MacPorts has.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

Assuming this is the same issue as on 10.6 – 10.9 (and possibly even newer, I don’t know), this is an SSL problem and it can be fixed with an IMAP proxy. Aqua Proxy will do it, but it’s written in Go so I don’t have a way to make it work on PPC.

 

[barracuda156]

Assuming this is the same issue as on 10.6 – 10.9 (and possibly even newer, I don’t know), this is an SSL problem and it can be fixed with an IMAP proxy. Aqua Proxy will do it, but it’s written in Go so I don’t have a way to make it work on PPC.

I am sure there are a lot of proxy software in C.