Re: [Evolution] IMAP/SSL weirdness

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Ah, it was probably a bug in the upgrade from 1.0.8 to 1.2.0

Jeff

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 14:10, Nedim Cholich wrote:
> There is definitely a bug here. No matter what I did I could not get evo
> to connect to IMAPS port. And then I deleted all my accounts, stopped
> evo, did killev, started it again, created my IMAPS account first and my
> Exchange account second and everything worked fine!
> 
> Could it be the order of account creation or the fact that I had
> accounts created in 1.0.8 and then upgraded to 1.2.
> 
> Anyway, all is good and Evolution is better then ever! Now I have
> something no other email client can do, Exchange and IMAPS.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 12:28, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Evolution attempts to connect to the default port (for imap, this is 143
> > or the port that you define) over a plain connection first. It then
> > checks to see if the server supports STARTTLS - if so, it toggles into
> > SSL mode via that method rather than connecting to the SSL port.
> > 
> > If that fails, it then attempts to connect top the SSL port.
> > 
> > This is if you have the "always" option for SSL in the account config.
> > If you set it to "whenever possible", it doesn't ever bother trying the
> > SSL port - it just tries the cleartext port and looks for STARTTLS.
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 23:44, nedim pobox com wrote:
> > > Sorry if this is a redundant post. All I could find are simmilar 
> > > questions and no answers.
> > > 
> > > I'm running Evolution 1.2.0 on RedHat 8.0 and have two accouns set up, 
> > > Exchange via plugin and IMAP over SSL.
> > > 
> > > No matter what I do Evolution is trying to connect to port 143 instead of 
> > > 993! My server log shows the following:
> > > 
> > > Nov 28 23:29:16 chimp imapsd[19673]: imaps SSL service init from 
> > > 10.0.0.149
> > > Nov 28 23:29:16 chimp imapsd[19672]: Unable to accept SSL connection, 
> > > host=[10.0.0.149]
> > > 
> > > At first I though that default iptables setup on RedHat may be 
> > > preventing server from connecting back. But my client don't have any 
> > > firewall set up. Iptables is all on Accept. 
> > > 
> > > Anybody has any clues as to why is this happening?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Nedim.
> > > 
> > > 
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