On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 10:10 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
On Sep 14, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 15:21 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
Hmmm, I tried ssl = yes. Mail.app still crashes when trying to connect.
Well, its likely an Apple fault, after all their implementation of pop3 has been known to be broken for many many many years, but still after all these years are incapable of finding a developer to fix it by inserting a QUIT after its done everything.
Since we just ruled this one out, might I suggest you grab the source and build it, install it all under /opt/dovecot that way it wont interfere with your ports installation and try that, the one you successfully just tested uses dovecot 2.1 not 2.2, so maybe try source of 2.1 and see if it works.
But, if it does work on port 143 with TLS I wouldnt worry too much about it, the only place that seems to prefer it is the NSA's mail server, oops, I mean gmail, not many ISP's these days bother with it, it has been withdrawn for years since most clients can handle TLS, the better way to do it, like they dont bother with smtps either, the *s version is really only supported for those running antique versions of windows that dont understand TLS, and yes thats more micro$lops fault, just like SNI thats been available even in lynx and other older browsers/ epihany/galeon etc) since 2005ish. But M$ doesnt give a toss about its users, a very senior M$ dev on his personal blog a year or so ago wrote " they need to upgrade to windows 7 or 8" yup they only see $$$ not happy users (I posted a comment btw that went along the lines of "or mid last decade version of linux" ;)
