Connecting to Exchange 2000 with IMAP-SSL on alternate port

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Hi all,
So we've got this exchange 2k server that I can somehow manage to connect to using a Treo as well as Entourage reasonably well. Am not interested in using OWA. Am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong - when I click "Save" on the config. Here's the essential elements of the config I'm using:
Name: My name
Address: [email protected]
Description: Work
Incoming
Host Name: mail.domain.example:2093 <---our alternate port
User Name: My AD username (NOT the same as the email alias)
Password: _
Outgoing
Host Name: mail.domain.example:445
User Name: etc
When I click "Save" it says "Cannot Connect Using SSL. Do you want to try setting up the account without SSL?" If I click "Yes" then it nags me but otherwise goes to the settings screen. I can see that it's properly interpreted the server ports, SSL is turned on, etc.
Going to the Mail app, sure enough, I get "Cannot Get Mail. The connection to the server 'mail.domain.example:2093' failed."
I know that this setup works on my Treo, the server is up and running and I can telnet to it on port 2093, and the SSL certificate is not self-signed but instead purchased from a regular commercial CA.
We're not going to break existing stuff (like the mail applications on all our treos) by changing that oddball port assignment, and it appears that an upgrade to the mail server is still well off. In the meantime, how do I work around this apparent limitation in Mail.app on the iPod/iPhone? (Hint: I'm getting a lot of requests for this)

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