Thanks for all your help! I was finally able to get IMAP working
just fine on my Mac OS 10.3.9 box.
I compiled it with "make oxp SSLTYPE=nopwd". My confusion was in
forgetting that 'cos I now was using SSL, I had to have a listener on
port 993. This was accomplished by copying 'imap' to 'imaps' in '/
etc/xinetd.d'. Then I just had to checkmark the 'SSL' box in the Mac
OS X Mail preferences, and it connected with no problems.
My second bit of confusion was that I had forgotten to edit the imapd
source to tell it to use my IMAP subdirectory for mail. It defaulted
to using my home directory on the server, which caused the mail
client to max out on connections as it tried to suck in everything
under my home directory. This was easily fixed by an imapd recompile.
My third bit of confusion was that Mac OS X Mail complained about my
server certificate - turns out that I had to make sure the Common
Name on the certificate was the servername I was using to connect to
the imap daemon, not *my own* name. I generated a new self-signed
certificate and imported it into the Mac client's keychain, and now
it connects without complaints.
So, I'm good to go! Thank you for your help! My thanks to Mark
especially; every time I find some helpful-looking piece of
information about IMAP, it seems that Mark is the author and that
catchy .sig about the sheep is on it. :)
(Incidentally, Mac OS X Mail is my favorite mail client so far,
mainly because it is capable of making all my inboxes across my
accounts look like a single combined inbox, all my junkboxes look
like a single combined junkbox, etc. I understand this is also
supposed to be possible in Thunderbird 2, but I haven't tried that yet.)
- B
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