Latest Postman on Mac is not notarized by an Apple Developer account

[vcommero]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Describe the Issue

There seems to be an issue with Postman desktop for MacOS where the application cannot be opened and presents an error with "'Postman' can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software." After doing some digging, I ran the command 'spctl -a -vvv -t install Postman.app' on the app and got this response:
Postman.app: rejected source=Unnotarized Developer ID origin=Developer ID Application: Postdot Technologies, Inc (H7H8Q7M5CK)
So looks like the application is not notarized by an Apple Developer account. I've tried both the latest version on the official Postman site (v11.23.1 as of this post) and the latest version available on homebrew (v11.21.0) and was unable to open either version and found both versions were unnotarized. This is preventing Postman desktop from being used on Macs where the user doesn't have necessary permissions to allow security exceptions.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Download the latest official release from the website or install through homebrew on a Mac system.
2. Attempt to open and run the application.
3. You should be presented with an error dialog with "'Postman' can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software."
4. Running 'spctl -a -vvv -t install Postman.app' on the app should fail and indicate the app is unnotarized.

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Operating System

macOS

Postman Version

11.23.1

Postman Platform

Postman App

User Account Type

Signed In User

Additional Context?

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[tony-go]

Hey @vcommero 👋🏼

Thanks for reporting this issue. To help us investigate, could you please share:

1. Your macOS version
2. Your Xcode version (you can check this by running xcodebuild -version in Terminal)
3. The output of the following command: xattr -p com.apple.quarantine Postman.app
4. Do you use any anti-virus on?

This information will help us better understand and address your problem.

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I checked for locally for Sonoma 15.1 and Postman 11.23.1:

❯ plutil -p Postman.app/Contents/Info.plist | grep CFBundleVersion
  "CFBundleVersion" => "11.23.1"

❯ spctl -a -vvv -t exec Postman.app
Postman 2.app: accepted
source=Notarized Developer ID
origin=Developer ID Application: Postdot Technologies, Inc (H7H8Q7M5CK)