[Dovecot] SSL with startssl.com certificates

[Dan Langille]

On Oct 6, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

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> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> Suggestions to use another client app or platform will not be entertained, because, clearly, this works with dovecot 1
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> 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

It seems that the test server is not testing this particular situation.

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> so i assume the problem exists between chair and keyboard

Turns out, this assumption is incorrect.

Just saying….

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