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: plain connection, but
- 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 the illegal xfer correctly fails as it should with a popup messge under a
- 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........
My thanks in advance, S.
Everything else I tested behaves...for anyone that's interested....... ================ Over Quota Xfer results ====================
Insecure Pine from Unix login shell: refused by both UWIMAP (cannot exceed user or group quota) and Dovecot (there's not enough disk space.) server apps. It is presumed that this will be used from within an SSH session to secure the transmission.
Webmail (horde, insecure and secure) : refused by both UWIMAP (cannot exceed user or group quota) and Dovecot (there's not enough disk space.) server apps.
PC: TBird 1.5, 2.0, Sea Monkey and Netscape 7.2: get a popup with both UWIMAP (cannot exceed user or group quota) and Dovecot (there's not enough disk space.) server apps, both secure and insecure
Mac: Seamonkey: ditto, same as PC Sea Monkey Mac Mail or Mail.app only works insecure, as per above