On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:09:54PM -0500, Phredd Groves wrote: * *I have recently gotten Dovecot running on my Solaris 5.8 mail server in order *to replace UW IMAP. I'm currently testing it out with mail clients popular *amongst my users. It's been working very well, with one vital exception. * *Apple Mail on OS X 10.4 is not completing authentication (I don't think *it's even getting that far). * *All I'm seeing in the syslog for attempts with Apple Mail (for both IMAP *and POP3) is a single line per attempt: * *Jan 29 17:20:01 paradox dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Disconnected: rip=X.X.X.X, lip=Y.Y.Y.Y, TLS handshake * *This is even with verbose for auth and for SSL. I know syslog plays well with *mail.warning and mail.debug and mail.notice, so I'm not quite sure what's *going on there. Nothing shows up in authlog or messages either. * *The OS X 10.5 Apple mail client works just fine, as do Thunderbird and even *Eudora. There did not seem to be any coverage of this when I googled and *went through the dovecot archives, so I'm thinking it might be some weird *interaction between that particular client and the SSL/shadow implementation *in dovecot (Things work in UW IMAP for the client). * *Any suggestions? thanks!
Just wanted to follow this up. I was contacted off list be a few people and confirmed myself that the issue is that the Mac OS X mail client for Tiger (10.4) does not work properly if it is assigned a non-standard port for IMAP or POP3.
Once I brought dovecot into production at the standard ports, the Apple mail client for Tiger worked just fine.
Phredd Groves
Systems Administrator Psychology Department Columbia University [212] 854-8167