[Users] homebrew claws-mail on Apple Silicon Mac

[George Avrunin]

I've used only Linux for a very long time but, for various reasons I won't go
into here, am transitioning to a MacBook for laptop use.  I apologize if I
don't know various things about working on a Mac that people with more
experience would find obvious.  I definitely want to be able to use
claws-mail on this laptop.  

I used Homebrew to install claws-mail 4.3.1 on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro
chip running Sequoia 15.3.2. The installation seemed to go fine. I started it
up and created two accounts with exactly the same settings as work on my
(dying) Linux laptop (and, except for how the dovecot server on my home
desktop/server is handled, on my other Linux boxes). On both of these accounts,
I get error messages about the TLS handshake failing when connecting to the
IMAP server and couldn't connect to the IMAP servers. One is the comcast.net
account I'm sending this from and the other is a GMail account that I let claws
configure automatically (but the settings work on my Linux laptop and
desktops).  

I found a couple of long threads in the later parts of 2023 about issues with
claws-mail on MacOS that seem related to this, but I didn't see any final
resolution.  One thread seemed to suggest that removing the Homebrew version
of libetpan and building it from git would resolve the issue, but I didn't see
any final message saying that worked, and the suggestion about replacing the
Homebrew libetpan seemed to be based on someone's notes from 2020. (Though
libetpan may not have done an official release since then.)  Moreover,
the discussion was mixed in with the OP eventually trying to build claws-mail
from git. So if it's possible, I wanted to check on the latest status of this.

Does anyone have claws-mail running successfully on Sequoia?  If so, how did
you build it?  Was it necessary to build libetpan separately rather than let
Homebrew handle it, and, if so, how did you build it?

Thanks for any help!

  George