Re: [Evolution] Imap and certificates

[dfc <chernoff astro cornell edu>]

On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 14:47 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 10:12 -0400, dfc wrote:
> > [imapx:A] Starting command (active=1,) A00000 LOGIN...
> > [imapx:A] camel_imapx_write: 'LOGIN...'
> > [imapx:A] camel_imapx_read: buffer is 'A00000 NO failed: Could not
> > connect to server'
>
>       Hi,
> interesting, at least to me, from the above snippet I'd say that
> evolution successfully connected to the server (you've received some
> capabilities and so on), and then evolution issued a "LOGIN" command,
> which includes your credentials. The server responded with "NO". Though
> I cannot tell for sure whether the actual error message comes from the
> server, or from the imapx code.
>
> Try to cleanup your certificates, as Pete said, and then it might start
> working. Make sure evo will be down when you'll play with them.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

It was a server-side configuration problem. I ended up using

openssl s_client -connect imap.cornell.edu:993

and monitored the entire SSL interaction; it was fine. The
CAMEL_DEBUG imapx error message was the server's verbatim response
to the login attempt

NO failed: Could not connect to server

Eventually, they fixed the problem and all is well.
Thanks all around.