Mail and SSL IMAP (Also iPhone)

Just recently got my phone, and love it, especially the email since I've got IMAP and the mailbox syncing is very very nice. However, I noticed that when I originally set up my email account (through my hosting and domain account at hostmonster.com) Mail had an issue with redownloading and syncing folders throughout the mail account. This appears to only be an issue with SSL logging in (which uses a different incoming and outgoing address) because when SSL isn't set up, the folders sync well; I can check email on my iPhone, move it or delete it, or just read it and Mail does the exact same thing when I get home and open Mail.
So, two things about this:
-Does Mail just not like IMAP connection through SSL? (I deleted the account and tried again in the Mail preferences with the same results)? The iPhone which used the same settings (until it was synced I presume) worked fine using SSL over wifi or EDGE.
-Does iPhone change the settings when it's updated? Although it's not entirely necessary at this point, I'd like my email to have some form of encryption over networks, especially free open ones.
Or, is it just some anomaly possibly with domain/hosting/email provider?

Nevermind, it seemed to have corrected itself. I noticed that an outgoing server for Gmail was being used on Mail, and that might have confused it, so I reset it and things seem to work fine now.

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With the iPhone coming to Verizon soon, I'd like to move back to Apple Mail from Gmail, but still want to keep Gmail as my source because my domain is setup with Google Apps but mostly because of the unparalleled spam filtering Gmail has. My problem is that even though I've configured Apple Mail exactly as Google recommends (shown below), I still have some issues.
From the Mail menu, click Preferences > *Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors*
Drafts:
Store draft messages on the server > *do NOT check*
Sent:
Store sent messages on the server > *do NOT check*
Junk:
Store junk messages on the server > checked
Delete junk messages when > Never
Trash:
Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox > *do NOT check*
Store deleted messages on the server > *do NOT check*
I want to have true IMAP functionality here, but I'm not getting it. Sent messages work fine...if I send a message, it shows up in Apple Mail in the Sent folder and when I go to Gmail it is also in the Sent folder. BUT...when I delete a message in Apple Mail it goes to the Gmail *All Mail* folder (in Apple Mail and Gmail) and never shows up in the Gmail Trash on either Apple Mail or Gmail...where it should. I've tried changing the settings under *Apple Mail > Trash* but that doesn't fix the problem.
I realize some of you might be inclined to say "It's Google problem...ask there" but I'm hoping a Gmail user here might have had this same issue before. Even as a dedicated Apple person for many years, I still can't give up Gmail and their spam filtering that Apple Mail can't come close to. Thanks for any suggestions.

Thanks, Andy. I should have posted a closure statement on this thread as I finally figured everything out. The most frustrating thing is Google's own advice at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892# couldn't further from correct. After many hours of experimenting with settings, I finally came up with the correct ones. In fact, I'm in the process of writing an article about it since there is simply no definitive guidance on the web that I've been able to find in the time I've searched.
Your comments are on target...everything on the *Behaviors Tab* needs to be checked (excepts Notes) and the *Delete when* settings must be set to Never. But there are a few other things that must be done, including some changes on Gmail Settings before Mail and Gmail will be perfectly synchronous. I'll post the entire solution on this forum when I finish the graphics.

Profiles, Certificates, Mail, and SSL

Strictly speaking, I have an iPod Touch 32G with iPhone software 2.2 (5G77a) for this problem. Expect my problem is exactly the same as for an iPhone.
iTunes synced my email account information just fine for a work POP3 account, work Exchange account, and gmail via IMAP. But not for my personal FreeBSD-hosted IMAP account which uses Dovecot and a self-signed certificate generated with the script provided in Dovecot.
Have been using this configuration for years with Mail.app. Every year I generate a new certificate and prior to MacOS 10.5 used to move it into "X509 Anchors" or some similarly named place with Keychain Access.app.
First problem resolved was my FreeBSD machine was named "opus.local" in my DNS. Tcpdump showed the iPod was trying to find it via mDNS. Reconfigured my internal DNS server to use .home rather than .local. Had to make new certificate for Dovecot and reconfigure Mail.app on my Mac Pro.
Now dovecot complains to FreeBSD's /var/log/maillog that the iPod connected via TLS but "Aborted login (no auth attempts)". The iPod says "Cannot Get Mail: The connection to the server "opus.home" failed." Tcpdump shows dovecot sending the certificate. The console in iPhone Configuration Utility only says:
Wed Dec 24 21:55:18 unknown MobileMail[37] <Warning>: ERROR: The connection to the server "opus.home" failed.
So after much study I have created a profile and "Shared" it using iPhone Configuration Utility version 1.1. Put my .cer in Credentials, emailed it to a working account, then the iPod complained about not having a Mail profile and rejected the whole thing.
Made a profile including mail with IMAP via SSL on port 143. iPod installed this one. Didn't work. Viewing the profile on the iPod showed port 993 was selected, not 143, and being a profile it was locked against change.
Tried emailing the .cer file only. That succeeded in installing a certificate after deleting the previous profile. The iPod created a profile which only has my certificate, but is still not communicating with dovecot on opus.home.
Watching the communication with tcpdump the two exchange a good number of small packets before the iPod gives up.
My self-signed certificate is RSA with a 128 byte public key (1024 bits).
What am I doing wrong?
Message was edited by: David Kelly1

Worked on this for weeks before posting. So after posting the above I disabled SSL on the mail account on the iPod. Enabled "PLAIN" authentication in Dovecot for non-encrypted sessions. And was able to download email.
Then I went back and re-enabled SSL. Checked email and finally got the message about the certificate possibly not secure (its self-signed).
Disabled the non-encrypted PLAIN in Dovecot, and everything still works!
There is something about iPhone 2.2 software that doesn't work with a self-signed certificate until after some traffic has moved through the account.

HT201441 How can i change the e-mail and password for the iphone

Hi there,
I bought my iphone as a 2nd hand from someone i dont know his adress.Then i made an update to the iphone and its says that i have to write the previous e-mail and the password which i dont know any of them and i couldnt find that person now.
So please if you can help me, what should i do in this case? Becouse the iphone at this moment is useless.
Best Regards

No, there is no solution - search these forums if you like for similar posts. Without knowing the registered owners password there is no way to disable Activation Lock. Apple will not give you that password, nor reset it for you, nor give you any personal information about the registered owner.
If you cannot contact that original owner, or they refuse to help you, then you now own a brick. If you can, go back to the seller and get your money back. It is reasonably likely though, that they did not actually own the device to sell it in the first place.

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No other mail clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, Entourage) have the problem.
It was working then quit.
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I am having a problem with sending mail in 10.7.3 and mail 5.2
The email account is a pop3 account. It worked fine for a long time.Last week it started to fail to send outgoing emails
I have deleted the account and added it back. Also have deleted the outgoing mail server.(when you delete a mail account it doesn' automaticly
delete the out going mail server)
I have another computer with the same email account and it works fine
Finally I unchecked use SSL and The account can now send emails.
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I talked to apple and they are blaming it on Frontier.
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I'm not sure about the SSL part, though. Does anyone know for sure that the moment I press send on Mail.app, the email is encrypted to Gmail's mail servers and then sent on its way.
So, for example, can I safely send mail from Mail.app in a public WiFi area and be sure that it's encrypted? Is there a default option in the settings of Mail.app, or do I need to do something special?
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mark

Thanks. I guess it's not just mine.
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I'm not a computer genius so I'm having a really hard time figuring this out and I hope someone out there can help me. I have the most current version of Leopard on my Macbook. I've always used my AOL Imap account on this computer and it's always worked just fine. The past few days, it's not working at all. When I try to send an email, it doesn't look like it's going to go through, then it goes to my outbox. But then I find out that the email actually did send. I am getting NO incoming mail whatsoever. But I'm getting it on my iphone just fine. I've changed my port number from 993 to 587 to see if that works, and it didn't. I've even completely deleted the aol imap account and then reset it up. Still didn't work. Please help.

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BT Mail and push email on iPhone

I have just been migrated to BT Mail from BT Yahoo. On both my iPhone 4s, running iOS7, and my iPad, the BT Mail does not give the option for push email, just fetch. Does BT Mail not support push email? I need my push email back - fetch, even every 15 mintes is not sufficient for my needs, and it a backward step. I want email pushed to my devices as soon as it hits the server. Can this be fixed? Also I have a problem with the BT website, when I log in with my email address and password it takes me from the BT.com website to BT Yahoo, which no longer contains my emails. Why is this?
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The new BTMail does not support push email.
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BTYahoo premium mail and SSL

HI,
I have a BTYahoo Premium email account which I pay £1.50 a month for.
Should I be able to connect to mail.btinternet.com via SSL?
I have changed the settings to 465 and 995 for SSL in my outlook client but get the following error:
socket error 10061, error number 0x800CCC0E
I also have a gmail account setup in outlook which connects using these ports so I know I can send and receive using them.
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vastre wrote:
Should I be able to connect to mail.btinternet.com via SSL?
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Hi there,
I recently set up my Gmail account for IMAP and configured Mail.app accordingly. I have several mail accounts which all get directed over my Gmail account. It all works fine, but whenever I send a mail from Mail.app from one of my mail accounts, it appears twice in my sent folder in Mail.app (it's not sent twice, I checked that, and it appears normally in the sent folder of the web interface).
It's seriously clucttering my sent folder, does anybody have an idea how to fix this? Maybe a problem with labels?
Help greatly appreciated,
J

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Mail and Gmail IMAP

Hello, having weird and annoying issues with Mail application.
Sometimes my ports just switch by themselves from 587 to 25 for SMTP. Is there a reason for it? Any fixes? Can't provide more details on this, very random.
After working 3 or so days my Gmail account stops working. Asks for passwords but it never accepts it. My office POP account also stops working. Have to restart the mac couple times to get the connections working again.
Are there any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

In the list of available SMTP servers to use as the Outgoing Server, is there more than one entry for the Gmail server? If or when pared down to only one, have you selected "use this server only"?
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Ernie

Mac Mail and SSL port settings

Since upgrading to Yosemite my Mac Mail changes port setting from 995 to 110 (I use SSL). This happen 2 or 3 times a week. When this happens I can't download emails. I have to change them back. Please help to make my setting permanent.
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For Mac Mail do the following to edit your port numbers...
Once in Mail choose Mail | Preferences...
Click on Accounts
For Outgoing Server Change do the following
Choose the account you want to edit, then click on "Account Information"
Next to Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), there is a drop down. Choose "Edit SMTP Server List..."
Click on the Outgoing Server name, then click on "Advanced"
Choose "Custom Port", then type in 465
Clck on "Use Secure Socket Layers (SSL)
Click "OK"
For incoming Server Change Do the following:
Choose the account you want to edit, then click on "Account Information"
Click on "Advanced"
at bottom, change "Port" to 995
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TS3899 I can't see attachments which is in the mail and I'm using iPhone 4s with 7.1 updated ios....

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