dovecot - Apr 2006 - Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.

Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be
thunderbird/outlook friendly?

Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I Get
the error:

"You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings
for your mail server."

I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available
as well, still no love.

Dovecot logfile contains:

dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
lip=10.0.0.208, TLS

Nothing else.

Thanks in advance!

-Charlie

Oh, I forgot to mention that if I turn on plain text authentication, it works
fine. But I'd to do TLS over the net.

-Charlie

----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 fishgills at fishgills.net wrote:
> Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be
> thunderbird/outlook friendly?
> 
> Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I
> Get the error:
> 
> "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account
settings for
> your mail server."
> 
> I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if
available as
> well, still no love.
> 
> Dovecot logfile contains:
> 
> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
> lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
> lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
> 
> Nothing else.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -Charlie

Charlie Davis wrote:
> Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be
thunderbird/outlook friendly?
>
> Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I
Get the error:
>
> "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account
settings for your mail server."
>
> I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if
available as well, still no love.
>
> Dovecot logfile contains:
>
> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
>
> Nothing else.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Charlie
>
>
>   
I've got beta2 running on an RHEL4 box, and I've had no problems with
Thunderbird (with people running anywhere from 0.7 to 1.5).  Which
version of dovecot are you running?

-- 
Topher Fischer
GnuPG Fingerprint: 3597 1B8D C7A5 C5AF 2E19  EFF5 2FC3 BE99 D123 6674
javert42 at cs.byu.edu


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1.0 Beta 3.

Plain authentication works. But not TLS.

I don't see anything in the configuration file that seems obvious to deny
TLS authentication.

-Charlie

----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 javert42 at cs.byu.edu wrote:
> Charlie Davis wrote:
>> Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be
> thunderbird/outlook friendly?
>>
>> Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the
time, I
> Get the error:
>>
>> "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account
settings
> for your mail server."
>>
>> I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if
available
> as well, still no love.
>>
>> Dovecot logfile contains:
>>
>> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
> lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
>> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4,
> lip=10.0.0.208, TLS
>>
>> Nothing else.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Charlie
>>
>>
>>
> I've got beta2 running on an RHEL4 box, and I've had no problems
with
> Thunderbird (with people running anywhere from 0.7 to 1.5).  Which
> version of dovecot are you running?
> 
> --
> Topher Fischer
> GnuPG Fingerprint: 3597 1B8D C7A5 C5AF 2E19  EFF5 2FC3 BE99 D123 6674
> javert42 at cs.byu.edu

Ok, it worked once, then stopped working.

To get away from maybe it being a thunderbird setup issue, I made a little php
script.

And now I have an error that didn't show up in the dovecot log even though I
have auth_debug and auth_verbose set to yes.

Here's what the imap socket returned to the php script:

Array
(
    [0] => Certificate failure for 10.0.0.208: self signed certificate:
/OU=IMAP server/CN=imap.example.com/emailAddress=postmaster at example.com
)

So, I gotta setup my certificate stuff which I can do, But couldn't this
have shown up in the dovecot log somehow?

-Charlie

----- On Saturday, April 1, 2006 fishgills at fishgills.net wrote:
> Turns out some Anti-Virus email scanners don't support TLS.
> 
> Sorry again! Not dovecot's fault. Disabled my anti-virus' email
scanner
> and it worked with TLS only.
> 
> Good to know for anyone else that ever has this problem. :)
> 
> -Charlie
> 
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 18:56 -0800, Charlie Davis wrote:
>>
>>> 1.0 Beta 3.
>>>
>>> Plain authentication works. But not TLS.
>>>
>>> I don't see anything in the configuration file that seems
obvious to deny
> TLS authentication.
>>>
>>
>> Set auth_verbose=yes and auth_debug=yes in dovecot.conf, maybe it shows
>> then why it's failing?
>>
>>