[Dovecot] using palm pre client with imap server

[Mark Sapiro]

On 11:59 AM, Jim Lawson wrote:
>  On 9/10/10 10:10 PM, zhong ming wu wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Jim Lawson <jtl+dovecot at uvm.edu> wrote:
>>>  I have a Palm Pre (Sprint, WebOS 1.4.5) and it seems to work just fine
>>> against Dovecot (Debian's 1.2.13 build, or a custom 1.2.13 build under
>>> RHEL) using TLS.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>> My dovecot is using plain text password scheme over TLS .  Is yours the same?
> Yes.  On one of the servers, using a private CA, I did have to install
> the CA cert on the Pre as Grégory suggested.
> 
>> FWIW I tried to use an android phone against IMAP and on that client
>> "secure connection" turns out to be something other than TLS/SSL.
>> Only if I uncheck that android phone can connect to dovecot although
>> it does use TLS even though "secure connection" is unchecked.     
> Strange.  I don't have an Android phone, though, so I can' t really comment.


I use an Android phone (2.2 now but originally set up under 2.1). My
Dovecot server uses a self signed certificate. When I tried to set up
IMAP access to dovecot using plain text passwords and TLS
(disable_plaintext_auth = yes) with the android built in client, it
would just silently fail. I switched to K-9 mail, and it asked me if I
wanted to accept the self signed certificate; I said yes, and it works fine.

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