On May 3, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
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: the illegal xfer correctly fails as it should with a popup messge
- 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- with Dovecot,
- login and mailbox load goes OK to port 10143, plain listen, and
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?
Evolution doesn't have a 'port' field, but if you specify host.com: 587, it'll use port 587. Maybe Mail.App is the same.
I know using aliases in Mail.App wasn't very obvious..
Rick
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