On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 06:32:18PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Nov 17, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Mark Nienberg wrote:
Jason Dixon wrote: This happens with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 and 1.5.0.8 on Mac OS X, and
Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 on Windows 2000. Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.Dovecot works well with imaps and pops. I'm kind of surprised to
hear that your Mail.app works. Is it really using TLS? Anyway,
I'm sure if you switch to ssl instead, it will work. I have
Thunderbird on Mac and Win doing it that way. There is some info
in the wiki about how to configure.I stand corrected, Mail.app is using SSL (or at least, that's the
only option in the account settings). After changing Thunderbird to
use SSL, it makes a successful connection. I'm curious though; I
have verbose_ssl enabled, and all I see is that a TLS login was
completed. Why does it say TLS, if it's really using SSL? Why do we
not see any additional information about the session?
Terminology. SSL has several versions: SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1. All are considered to be Secure Sockets Layer, with the last one being the most current version. I think what some folks think of when they hear "TLS" is the more modern way of negotiating an SSL/TLS connection via POP's STLS or IMAP's STARTTLS or SMTP's STARTTLS commands. Whether you use an "SSL" port (e.g. 465, 993, 995) or a non-SSL port (e.g. 25, 587, 143, 110) and negotiate "SSL", you are likely using TLSv1.
Nov 17 18:29:27 colo2 dovecot: imap-login: Login:
user=<jason@dixongroup.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=151.x.x.192,
lip=38.x.x.248, TLSThanks!
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