[Dovecot] Testing IMAP clients with Dovecot, problems with MacMail

[Bill Cole]

At 4:13 PM -0400 5/3/07, Stewart Dean wrote:
>I've been testing my user community's IMAP clients when I try to 
>login and then transfer a big message from the inbox into a folder 
>in an overquota folder directory.  I am using native filesystem 
>quotaing in AIXV5.3 with UWIMAP and comparing my results with what I 
>see with Dovecot 1.0.0. (My Dovecot built without any plugins or 
>quota extensions)
>
>Everything matches/works except for Mac Mail under SSL with Dovecot..
>
>Mac Mail:
>1) with UWIMAP, login and mailbox load goes OK, then the illegal 
>overquota xfer fails (as it should) with a popup reading 'Message 
>could not be moved', with (port 993) and without (port 143) SSL
>2) with Dovecot,
>1) login and mailbox load goes OK to port 10143, plain listen, and 
>the illegal xfer correctly fails as it should with a popup messge 
>under a plain connection, but
>2) When the port number is set to the Dovecot ssl_listen port and 
>the SSL box is checked, Mac Mail doesn't bring up the inbox and 
>folders...it acts like it can't connect.
>Has anyone else seen this behavior, and is there a fix?  Mac Mail is 
>also known as Mail.app.  I am testing it at 1.3.11 and 2.1.1.  In 
>the July '05 archive, I found this:
>>It looks like Mail.app treats "non-standard" ports differently.  On the
>>standard port (993), the "SSL" option seems to do pure SSL; but with another
>>port specified, it does clean-plus-starttls (and hence fails 
>>horribly, because
>>it's talking to a pure SSl service)
>Is there anything I can do to get MacMail to behave correctly?  Or 
>will it clear up when I shut down UWIMAP and give Dovecot the 
>default ports.  A Bronx cheer for Mac Mail........

I don't think there's any way to get Mail to talk  "imaps" on any 
port other than 993. I also can't see any compelling reason to to do 
that, since it looks like all of the clients you tested should be 
able to use STARTTLS anyway, so having a second port for direct SSL 
is not useful.

What am I missing?


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Bill Cole                                  
bill at scconsult.com