Well the symptom is that the OS X mail client just times out. It talks to port 993 on the server for a while, but just shows the user a moving icon. Eventually it complains the mail server didn't respond. 10.3 and 10.4 work fine, strangely enough. It times out as it's "checking connection to the mail server."
I did upgrade from dovecot 1.0 to 1.1 without doing much of any config changes on the dovecot side. But other clients work fine... Actually I just realized while watching tcpdump that Mail.app is testing port 25 after 993. So it may be a Postfix SSL failure of some sort. Chris Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday, December 05, 2008, at 10:45AM, "Chris Cappuccio" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >People using the new OS X mail client are unable to connect to the unsigned > >dovecot-mkcert.sh certificate on my Dovecot installations. Turning off SSL > >fixes the problem. Is there any way to make it work automatically, or do I > >just have to get the certificates signed? Has anyone figured this one out > >before? > > I have an unsigned SSL certificate with Dovecot and > connect fine using OSX.5's Mail.app. What do you > mean, "unable to connect"? Do you really mean > "unable to connect", or do you mean, "an error > message comes up every time they try to connect"? > > If its the latter complaint, please see this document: > http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22383 > > I know it says 10.3 Mail, but the steps to follow are > essentially unchanged between 10.3 and 10.5.
