[Dovecot] SSL with startssl.com certificates

[Dan Langille]

On 2013-10-06 17:06, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 06.10.2013 22:42, schrieb Dan Langille:
> I have Thunderbird working just fine on my Macbook.
> 
> But my goal is mail.app on my iPhone and my Macbook.  When they try to 
> connect, the mail server logs are:
> 
> Oct  6 20:20:25 imaps dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL failed: 
> where=0x2002: SSLv3 read client certificate A [98.111.147.220]
> Oct  6 20:20:25 imaps dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth 
> attempts in 1 secs): user=<>, rip=98.111.147.220, lip=199.233.228.197, 
> TLS handshaking: Disconnected, session=<Ux8HRBjo7QBib5Pc>
> Yet, the same iPhone and Macbook connect fine to a dovecot 1.2.17 
> installation.  That's my current IMAP server.  I'm moving to another 
> server and failing so far.
> 
> Suggestions to use another client app or platform will not be 
> entertained, because, clearly, this works with dovecot 1
> 
> and mail.app is working even with *self signed* certificates and 
> dovecot 2.2
> you only have to accept / import the certificate
> proven by a testserver all day long
> 
> so i assume the problem exists between chair and keyboard

It is something I am doing.  Without a doubt.

Clearly, there is something unique about this situation which is not 
going well.  I want to discover the problem so others do not encounter
it in future.

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Dan Langille - http://langille.org/