diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 39c81756f..0b28e9eb4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-imap"
-version = "0.10.4"
+version = "0.11.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ca726c61b73c471f531b65e83e161776ba62c2b6ba4ec73d51fad357009ed00a"
+checksum = "8e9f9a9c94a403cf46aa2b4cecbceefc6e4284441ebbeca79b80f3bab4394458"
 dependencies = [
  "async-channel 2.3.1",
  "async-compression",
@@ -3826,7 +3826,7 @@ version = "0.7.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "af1844ef2428cc3e1cb900be36181049ef3d3193c63e43026cfe202983b27a56"
 dependencies = [
- "proc-macro-crate 2.0.0",
+ "proc-macro-crate 3.2.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn 2.0.104",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e5ff9980b..e4230002a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ ratelimit = { path = "./deltachat-ratelimit" }
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
 async-broadcast = "0.7.2"
 async-channel = { workspace = true }
-async-imap = { version = "0.10.4", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio", "compress"] }
+async-imap = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio", "compress"] }
 async-native-tls = { version = "0.5", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
 async-smtp = { version = "0.10.2", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
 async_zip = { version = "0.0.17", default-features = false, features = ["deflate", "tokio-fs"] }
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index cb6e49b58..dbded77e9 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ skip = [
      { name = "lru", version = "0.12.3" },
      { name = "netlink-packet-route", version = "0.17.1" },
      { name = "nom", version = "7.1.3" },
-     { name = "proc-macro-crate", version = "2.0.0" },
      { name = "rand_chacha", version = "0.3.1" },
      { name = "rand_core", version = "0.6.4" },
      { name = "rand", version = "0.8.5" },
@@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ skip = [
      { name = "syn", version = "1.0.109" },
      { name = "thiserror-impl", version = "1.0.69" },
      { name = "thiserror", version = "1.0.69" },
-     { name = "toml_edit", version = "0.20.7" },
      { name = "wasi", version = "0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1" },
      { name = "windows" },
      { name = "windows_aarch64_gnullvm" },
@@ -67,7 +65,6 @@ skip = [
      { name = "windows_x86_64_gnu" },
      { name = "windows_x86_64_gnullvm" },
      { name = "windows_x86_64_msvc" },
-     { name = "winnow", version = "0.5.40" },
      { name = "zerocopy", version = "0.7.32" },
 ]
 
diff --git a/src/imap/client.rs b/src/imap/client.rs
index 47cc5cecd..84d123da9 100644
--- a/src/imap/client.rs
+++ b/src/imap/client.rs
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ impl Client {
         let mut client = Client::new(session_stream);
         let _greeting = client
             .read_response()
-            .await
-            .context("failed to read greeting")??;
+            .await?
+            .context("Failed to read greeting")?;
         Ok(client)
     }
 
@@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ impl Client {
         let mut client = Client::new(session_stream);
         let _greeting = client
             .read_response()
-            .await
-            .context("failed to read greeting")??;
+            .await?
+            .context("Failed to read greeting")?;
         Ok(client)
     }
 
@@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ impl Client {
         let mut client = async_imap::Client::new(buffered_tcp_stream);
         let _greeting = client
             .read_response()
-            .await
-            .context("failed to read greeting")??;
+            .await?
+            .context("Failed to read greeting")?;
         client
             .run_command_and_check_ok("STARTTLS", None)
             .await
@@ -287,8 +287,8 @@ impl Client {
         let mut client = Client::new(session_stream);
         let _greeting = client
             .read_response()
-            .await
-            .context("failed to read greeting")??;
+            .await?
+            .context("Failed to read greeting")?;
         Ok(client)
     }
 
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ impl Client {
         let mut client = Client::new(session_stream);
         let _greeting = client
             .read_response()
-            .await
-            .context("failed to read greeting")??;
+            .await?
+            .context("Failed to read greeting")?;
         Ok(client)
     }
 
@@ -325,8 +325,8 @@ impl Client {
         let mut client = ImapClient::new(buffered_proxy_stream);
         let _greeting = client
             .read_response()
-            .await
-            .context("failed to read greeting")??;
+            .await?
+            .context("Failed to read greeting")?;
         client
             .run_command_and_check_ok("STARTTLS", None)
             .await