Re: Dovecot and Windows Live Mail 2012?

[Jerry]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 18:45:24 -0400, David Mehler stated:

>Hello,
>
>I'm using self-signed certificates, but my CA public key is imported.
>
>I checked the logs and was getting an error about no authentication
>which is probably why it was failing. I then switched to 587 and 993
>ports and now it works, but it's very intermediant, sometimes it
>works, other times not.
>
>If there's a better free windows email client, (please not
>thunderbird), that doesn't have these Microsoft-isms i'd appreciate
>knowing about it.
>
>Thanks.
>Dave.

99% of all the problems I have witnessed with a Windows based MUA is
due to a firewall misconfiguration. Check there first. Also, check the
official documentation for the application, etc. Outlook.com uses 587
and 993 by default, assuming an IMAP connection. Please see this URL
for complete instructions.

https://www.outlook-apps.com/outlook-com-pop-settings/

-- 
Jerry

Re: Dovecot and Windows Live Mail 2012?

[David Mehler]

Hello,

I'm using self-signed certificates, but my CA public key is imported.

I checked the logs and was getting an error about no authentication
which is probably why it was failing. I then switched to 587 and 993
ports and now it works, but it's very intermediant, sometimes it
works, other times not.

If there's a better free windows email client, (please not
thunderbird), that doesn't have these Microsoft-isms i'd appreciate
knowing about it.

Thanks.
Dave.


On 4/13/16, aki.tu...@dovecot.fi  wrote:
>
>> On April 13, 2016 at 5:51 PM David Mehler  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hope someone has this working, because I'm pulling my hair out at this
>> one.
>>
>> I'm using well for this it's a win7 x64 machine running Windows
>> Essentials 2012 and using the Windows Live mail component. I am trying
>> to connect to my Dovecot server running 2.23 I believe. I keep getting
>> the error "the imap command could not be sent to the server because of
>> a non-network error" googling showed many with this, but no fix.
>>
>> In this account I'm trying to access port 143 which uses starttls. In
>> Mail I've got the boxes for require a secure connection and
>> authentication checked.
>>
>> I should note of course and with no surprise that Mail works oh just
>> fine with the Hotmail account I've also got configured, it's only with
>> the downloading of folders and sending of email to the dovecot server
>> that mail has the issue.
>>
>> Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.
>>
>> Help appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>
> Are you using public CA signed certificate? Are there any errors in dovecot
> logs?
>
> Aki
>

Re: Dovecot and Windows Live Mail 2012?

[aki . tuomi]

> On April 13, 2016 at 5:51 PM David Mehler  wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I hope someone has this working, because I'm pulling my hair out at this one.
> 
> I'm using well for this it's a win7 x64 machine running Windows
> Essentials 2012 and using the Windows Live mail component. I am trying
> to connect to my Dovecot server running 2.23 I believe. I keep getting
> the error "the imap command could not be sent to the server because of
> a non-network error" googling showed many with this, but no fix.
> 
> In this account I'm trying to access port 143 which uses starttls. In
> Mail I've got the boxes for require a secure connection and
> authentication checked.
> 
> I should note of course and with no surprise that Mail works oh just
> fine with the Hotmail account I've also got configured, it's only with
> the downloading of folders and sending of email to the dovecot server
> that mail has the issue.
> 
> Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.
> 
> Help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> Dave.

Are you using public CA signed certificate? Are there any errors in dovecot
logs?

Aki

Dovecot and Windows Live Mail 2012?

[David Mehler]

Hello,

I hope someone has this working, because I'm pulling my hair out at this one.

I'm using well for this it's a win7 x64 machine running Windows
Essentials 2012 and using the Windows Live mail component. I am trying
to connect to my Dovecot server running 2.23 I believe. I keep getting
the error "the imap command could not be sent to the server because of
a non-network error" googling showed many with this, but no fix.

In this account I'm trying to access port 143 which uses starttls. In
Mail I've got the boxes for require a secure connection and
authentication checked.

I should note of course and with no surprise that Mail works oh just
fine with the Hotmail account I've also got configured, it's only with
the downloading of folders and sending of email to the dovecot server
that mail has the issue.

Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.

Help appreciated.

Thanks.
Dave.