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April 09, 2004
Mail.app and SSL
While for the most part I've been relatively happy with using Apple's Mail.app and most of it's operating system, I've come to find one thing that is relatively inconsistent in Mail.app. Using an 802.11 connection, Mail.app seems to have issues connecting to an SSL wrapped IMAP server. To the point where it begins to ignore the request to use SSL and just attempts a non-encrypted connection. Oddly enough, if one were to use an ethernet cable instead, the connection is established correctly and mail is transfered just fine.
Point of interest is this behavior doesn't establish itself on all wireless connections. I can, for example, establish an SSL IMAP connection just fine from the various internet cafes down the block, but I cannot from my home Airport Extreme device. I cannot use a friends wireless router either.
Posted by Dan at April 9, 2004 10:46 AM
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Hi Dan,
this seem weird, but I use imap-ssl and smpt-ssl all over the places off- and on-wire. No problems at all, no questions asked.
Greetings,
Jan
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Posted by: Jan at April 19, 2004 03:01 AM