At 10:29 AM -0700 2011-05-10, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 11:59 AM, Dave Yost wrote:
A user on our server for some reason didn't have a home directory. As a result, the pop3 server was complaining. Apple's Mail app reported that the server said:
The attempt to send data to the server "(null)" failed.
Mail is sent via SMTP, not POP3.
Yes. I know. That error message was reported by Mail as a result of trying to connect to the POP3 server.
A client MUA delivers mail to a server via SMTP and presumably it is the MTA on the server, not Dovecot, that issued whatever failure resulted in the above.
It is possible that Dovecot is involved, e.g. in processing SASL authentication, but Apple Mail would have been talking to the MTA on the server.
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