[Dovecot] Problem with Eudora

[Reuben Farrelly]

Hi,

I'm using Eudora 6 and have no problems with Dovecot IMAP over SSL, and
Eudora so from my perspective Eudora is just fine and "works for me"..  The
only problems I've had have been with CVS, but version 0.99.10.4 works ok
and I've been using it for a while now with no issues whatsoever.
I'm not sure if people have looked through the Eudora help knowledgebase but
it gives pretty clear and accurate instructions on setting up SSL -

http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2323hq.html
This document applies equally to IMAP as well as POP.

Or better still, search through the KB:

http://www.eudora.com/search/query.html?oq=EPWIN&qt=ssl&qc=now&col=&qp=&qs=&pw=510&ws=0&qm=1&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=0&rq=1

Also suggest you make sure that the task status/progress meter window is
open when you are testeing it as this will give you a more verbose idea of
what is going wrong......

Reuben




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amelia A. Lewis" <amyzing at talsever.com>
To: "Scott Klein" <scott at thenation.com>
Cc: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problem with Eudora


> 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
> >
>
>
> -- 
> Amelia A. Lewis                    amyzing {at} talsever.com
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