Hello,

I'm using self-signed certificates, but my CA public key is imported.

I checked the logs and was getting an error about no authentication which is probably why it was failing. I then switched to 587 and 993 ports and now it works, but it's very intermediant, sometimes it works, other times not.

If there's a better free windows email client, (please not thunderbird), that doesn't have these Microsoft-isms i'd appreciate knowing about it.

Thanks. Dave.

On 4/13/16, aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi wrote:

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On April 13, 2016 at 5:51 PM David Mehler dave.mehler@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I hope someone has this working, because I'm pulling my hair out at this one.

I'm using well for this it's a win7 x64 machine running Windows Essentials 2012 and using the Windows Live mail component. I am trying to connect to my Dovecot server running 2.23 I believe. I keep getting the error "the imap command could not be sent to the server because of a non-network error" googling showed many with this, but no fix.

In this account I'm trying to access port 143 which uses starttls. In Mail I've got the boxes for require a secure connection and authentication checked.

I should note of course and with no surprise that Mail works oh just fine with the Hotmail account I've also got configured, it's only with the downloading of folders and sending of email to the dovecot server that mail has the issue.

Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.

Help appreciated.

Thanks. Dave.

Are you using public CA signed certificate? Are there any errors in dovecot logs?

Aki