[ale] iphone email connections to dovecot imap

[Jim Kinney]

good ideas. Especially the IP address one. Not sure how reliable AT&T dns is...

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Brandon
Checketts<brandon at brandonchecketts.com> wrote:
> tcpdump the traffic from the iphone's IP address and verify that you are seeing
> any traffic at all.   Of course, verify that the server name is spelled
> correctly, etc.   Try using the server's IP address instead of the name to
> eliminate DNS issues.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon Checketts
>
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I'm trying to connect an iphone to a dovecot imap server. The dovecot
>> server is setup to use ssl/tls. I can get to it remotely using a
>> thunderbird client but the stupid iphone doesn't connect at all. After
>> the config process tries it's test it asks to try without ssl and
>> still fails.
>>
>> Watching the /var/log/messages for an incoming connection at the same
>> time and I never see the iphone attempt a connection but I always see
>> the thunderbird connection.
>>
>> ideas?
>>
>
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