First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

13 Oct 2016


      Hello,
I'm new in Dovecot and am having troubles making it working. I'm trying using Outlook and Apple's Mail as the mail clients. Outlook says it can't establish a secured connection to the server (for the IMAP protocol). I'm guessing sending e-mails works but I can't check.
This is my current configuration (using dovecot -n):
# 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab116.1 x86_64 Debian 8.6
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
protocols = " imap"
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0666
user = postfix
}
}
service imap-login {
inet_listener imaps {
port = 993
ssl = yes
}
}
ssl = no
ssl_cert = 
I find abnormal I'm seeing "ssl = no" in this configuration despite the fact that I have "ssl = required" in the /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf file, but I'm new to this...
I have looked around the web; finally, I'm asking here, hoping it's the correct place to ask.
Arnaud

Marnaud

Aki Tuomi

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