[Dovecot] iphone connection problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:55 PM, dovecot at feb17.org wrote:

> Hi, I recently changed from uw imap to dovecot on the sound  
> recommendation of a friend and have mostly succeeded in getting all  
> of my clients up and running, but am really stuck with the iPhone  
> which is failing to make connections.  I run certificates on all of  
> my clients and thunderbird happily connects both locally and  
> remotely.  I installed the certificate on the iPhone after great  
> pain (pk12 via the Web administration utility). When you open the  
> configurations on the phone , it tries to make a test connection to  
> the server and fails with a generic SSL error.  Dovecot reports just  
> a generic disconnected error (imap-login/client.c line 333), and it  
> appears to be dropping the connection.
>
> Sep  2 09:38:17 inchoate dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth  
> failed, 0 attempts): rip=209.204.139.116, lip=192.168.0.252, TLS

verbose_ssl=yes would log more.

> ssl_verify_client_cert: yes
..
>  ssl_require_client_cert: yes

Did this really work with UW-IMAP or are you just now trying to set  
this up? Are you sure iPhone is even supposed to work with this?

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