Hi,

I'm using Eudora 6 and have no problems with Dovecot IMAP over SSL, and Eudora so from my perspective Eudora is just fine and "works for me".. The only problems I've had have been with CVS, but version 0.99.10.4 works ok and I've been using it for a while now with no issues whatsoever. I'm not sure if people have looked through the Eudora help knowledgebase but it gives pretty clear and accurate instructions on setting up SSL -

http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2323hq.html This document applies equally to IMAP as well as POP.

Or better still, search through the KB:

http://www.eudora.com/search/query.html?oq=EPWIN&qt=ssl&qc=now&col=&qp=&qs=&...

Also suggest you make sure that the task status/progress meter window is open when you are testeing it as this will give you a more verbose idea of what is going wrong......

Reuben

----- Original Message ----- From: "Amelia A. Lewis" <amyzing@talsever.com> To: "Scott Klein" <scott@thenation.com> Cc: <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problem with Eudora

I had exactly this experience, and looked through the Eudora site. The result of my research was basically that Eudora doesn't do SSL/TLS properly.

In my case, I was using a self-signed certificate. The instructions for how to make this work (pretend the IMAP server is a POP server? so that you can see the failed SSL negotiation and add the certificate? is this weird or am I?) were obscure, and didn't seem to work. I could never make it work.

This was for a client for whom I was setting up a mail system; they wanted to move away from Outlook onto something more secure, and opted for the name recognition of Eudora. After fighting with it for a couple of days, I tested with several alternate clients (thunderbird, mozilla, pegasus, pocomail) and they all worked, so I recommended that the client switch to something other than Eudora.

Or, in short, I think the problem is client lossage, not a server problem.

Amy! On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:08:52 -0500 Scott Klein <scott@thenation.com> wrote:

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I'm trying to get Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10-6) to work with Eudora (6.0 mac/win) and am having a real problem when I try to enable SSL, either TLS or alternate-port SSL.

Although my other mail clients, mail.app, imp, etc. work just fine, either version of Eudora craps out when trying to connect via TLS or SSL-- on the mac I get the error

Could not get mailbox list. 20

[CLOSED] IMAP connection broken (command)

On the PC I get something similar. Sometimes, on the mac, I don't get the [CLOSED] part I get

Unable to get the required mailbox list from the server

I've tried the "esoteric settings" trick (setting "user plain text password" in the IMAP panel) but that doesn't work. Everything works fine when I turn SSL off.

I'm kind of at my wit's end. Has anybody experienced this? Have I not read TFM? Hope y'all can help.

Best, Scott Klein

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