Mailclient GEARY on KALI Linux unable to store certificate

Aug 17, 2019

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If you receive an error on Kali Linux using Geary as your mailclient like this:

“Unable to store server trust exception;
Couldn’t find a place to store the pinned certificate.”

Then run the following two command in a terminal:
Using a local SMTP and IMAP server with self signed STARTTLS certificates, after accepting the certificate warning I’m presented with an error “Unable to store server trust exception; Couldn’t find a place to store the pinned certificate.

mkdir -p ~/.config/pkcs11/modules
curl https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/raw/ff229abca62db366c84dfe58035324f6d8ca6059/pkcs11/rpc-layer/gnome-keyring.module.in > ~/.config/pkcs11/modules/gnome-keyring.module