How to avoid dropping iphone.

I am delighted with my new purchase but unlike the N95 it does not have a wrist strap. Are there any products out there that facilitate securing a strap with an adhesive. As an oldie I am terrified of dropping the iphone

Here's one option... http://www.collinsamerica.com/page4/page4.html
and here's a Google search for iPhone wrist strap... http://www.google.com/search?q=iphonewriststrap&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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So I travelled to Colombia recently and in general, had my phone either turned off, or on airplane mode the entire trip. I only used it for one five minute phone call and to listen to music for about five hours accumulated. I was there for about 8 days.
I was told to put the phone on airplane mode, so as to avoid any roaming charges, as my fellow travel companions (who all also owned iPhones), said "that way nothing comes through. No wi-fi, messages, nothing".
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More explanation about SSL/TLS in the Dovecot wiki: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL
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disable_plaintext_auth = yes
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When debugging this, please note that if you connect from localhost (the same machine the server runs on) disable_plaintext_auth=yes has no effect, as localhost is considered secure. You have to connect from a remote machine to make sure plain text authentication is disabled.
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To test if your setup works as it's supposed to, issue the following (green) from a remote machine (not localhost) (I'm using Ubuntu, but telnet and openssl is available for almost all platforms) and make sure Dovecot responds with something like below (purple):
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(The 'a' in front of STARTTLS is not a typo, a prefix is required by the IMAP server in front of all commands.)
Close the telnet (with 'a logout' or Ctrl+C) and you can use openssl to further investigate as you would otherwise; at the end of a lot of output including the certificate chain you should see a line similar to the one below:
openssl s_client -starttls imap -connect your.domain.name.here:yourimapsportnumber
. OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login capabilities have more.
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a capability
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN
a login username password
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Likewise, you have to set Postfix to wait for STARTTLS before encrypting the communication.
1. You have to delete the setting smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes from /etc/postfix/master.cf and/or /etc/postfix/main.cf, if it was enabled. This will mean Outlook won't be able to connect any more because it requires a TSL connection without issuing STARTTLS as per Postfix documentation (haven't tested.) In my case we don't use Outlook so I didn't care. Outlook + iPhone + custom SMTPS port are simply not possible together at the same time as far as I understand. Pick one to sacrifice.
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smtpd_tls_security_level = encrypt
3. Authentication should only happen while already in encrypted (TLS) mode, so set in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
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Don't forget postfix reload.
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Then type in the EHLO and make sure the list of options contains STARTTLS and does not include an AUTH line (that would mean unencrypted authentication is available):
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250-STARTTLS
Then issue starttls and wait for the server's confirmation:
starttls
220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
Once again, it's time to use openssl for further testing, detailed info here http://qmail.jms1.net/test-auth.shtml
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You also need to be aware that iOS is somewhat particular when it comes to certificates. First of all, you have to make sure to set the following extensions on your root certificate (probably in the [ v3_ca ] section in your /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf, depending on your openssl setup), especially the 'critical' keyword:
basicConstraints = critical,CA:true
keyUsage = critical, cRLSign, keyCertSign
subjectKeyIdentifier=hash
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always,issuer:always
And then on the certificate you sign for your mail server, set the following, probably in the [ usr_cert ] section of /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf:
basicConstraints=CA:FALSE
keyUsage = nonRepudiation, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment
subjectKeyIdentifier=hash
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer
subjectAltName = DNS:your.domain.name.here
issuerAltName=issuer:copy
Please note, the above are results of extensive google-ing and trial and error, so maybe you can omit some of the stuff above and it still works. When it started working for me, I stopped experimenting because figuring this all out already took way too much time. The iPhone is horribly undocumented when it comes to details of its peculiar behaviors. If you experiment more and have more accurate information, please feel free to post here as a reply to this message.
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IN CLOSING...
With all this, you can read and send email from your iPhone.
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