[HTC Titan] Mercurybird:
Dreaded certificate errors during email syncing.

BUMP: Everyone here should already know that as a general rule, almost no Windows Phone 7+ works with corporate servers. There are some here and there. This is amazing when you consider that all Windows Phones are completely compatible with Microsoft's server software out there. Everything we need is in the phone already. The problem is, unlike Android and IPhone, Windows Phones check for certificate errors, and if found, will terminate the email sync update. In the picture I uploaded with this message you can see the errors in the certificate from my employer's corporate email certificate. I can log into the Outlook server with my phone. I just can't sync mail, contacts, etc.. The IT department at work is worthless and remote- or should I say aloof? The Director of the IT Department at another medical center, in another city offered to help. He has approved me for phone syncing. I can now get my mail on my IPod Touch- go figure. The Titan does one of two things: Give me the certificate error and terminates the sync, or it will tell me to enter the correct information for my email server and hit enter. The password is always highlighted. I know that the information for the server is correct. I changed the email password to my account and the phone still does the same thing, over, and over, and over.. Hmmmm...

I have read a bazillion threads and tried almost that many things to get past this. I've done all those things and more. I have been combing through my Titan's registry looking for that needle in a haystack. The needle being how to turn off certificate error checking. I think I have inspected nearly everything in the registry at least once. I'm just not finding what I'm looking for. I thought it might be a function of one of the certificates. I'm in the process of exporting all of the Microsoft certificates to check for any obvious line about error checking. I think if it is in the registry it must be coded in.

Does anyone here know of any ideas, or clues, as to how to do what I'm trying to do? Could a simple app be written that would intercept the error check? If there is any place that can answer this question it would be here in these forums. There must be tens of thousands, or millions of frustrated Windows Phone owners out there. The person that could solve this frustrating issue would be the darling of Windows Phone users all over the world. Microsoft has known about this issue for years and has done nothing to remedy it. Their typical answer for it is to jump through some hoops from hell.

Please everyone circulate this through your own circles of influence, power, and daring. As in the first custom ROM for the Titan, I would pony up some money to get a prize purse going for the first person to pull this off. I'm almost sure that it would have to be on a fully unlocked phone. All the more valuable would be to make it work on a stock phone. I would just imagine that it this reward purse idea got out world wide, the response would be overwhelming.

So excuse me for bumping my thread- even if I didn't do it right. We've got to move this issue forward ourselves. Microsoft is NOT INTERESTED in doing it. The higher we can raise this issue, the more likely it is to succeed.

EDIT: I have since learned that S/MIME is also a crucial aspect of corporate email syncing. I don't know a lot about this stuff, or how it may come to play in the email syncing nightmare. I do know, however, that Windows Phone 6.X had S/Mime in it, but all models above that Microsoft left it out. I suppose, like the error checking issue, Microsoft will make no move to correct this.

EDIT2: I wonder if certificate checking is in the software, or if it is burned into a rom chip of some kind. If it is software, then the farther I can get away from a Windows based ROM the better my chances are of overcoming this. So as custom ROMs go, what ROM weighs in as the least like Windows? Is my idea on the right track?