[Dovecot] Problem with Eudora

[Amelia A. Lewis]

I had exactly this experience, and looked through the Eudora site.  The
result of my research was basically that Eudora doesn't do SSL/TLS
properly.

In my case, I was using a self-signed certificate.  The instructions for
how to make this work (pretend the IMAP server is a POP server?  so that
you can see the failed SSL negotiation and add the certificate?  is this
weird or am I?) were obscure, and didn't seem to work.  I could never
make it work.

This was for a client for whom I was setting up a mail system; they
wanted to move away from Outlook onto something more secure, and opted
for the name recognition of Eudora.  After fighting with it for a couple
of days, I tested with several alternate clients (thunderbird, mozilla,
pegasus, pocomail) and they all worked, so I recommended that the client
switch to something other than Eudora.

Or, in short, I think the problem is client lossage, not a server
problem.

Amy!
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:08:52 -0500
Scott Klein <scott at thenation.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to get Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10-6) to work with Eudora (6.0
> mac/win) and am having a real problem when I try to enable SSL, either
> TLS or alternate-port SSL. 
> 
> Although my other mail clients, mail.app, imp, etc. work just fine,
> either version of Eudora craps out when trying to connect via TLS or
> SSL-- on the mac I get the error
> 
>    Could not get mailbox list.
>    20
> 
>    [CLOSED] IMAP connection broken (command)
> 
> On the PC I get something similar. Sometimes, on the mac, I don't get
> the [CLOSED] part I get
> 
>    Unable to get the required mailbox list from the server
> 
> I've tried the "esoteric settings" trick (setting "user plain text
> password" in the IMAP panel) but that doesn't work. Everything works
> fine when I turn SSL off. 
> 
> I'm kind of at my wit's end. Has anybody experienced this? Have I not
> read TFM? Hope y'all can help.
> 
> Best,
> Scott Klein
> 


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