[chandler-users] Chandler email server connection issues

[Grant Baillie]

As I noted in Dan's bug

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8628#c1

their server is misconfigured: it is advertising support for a  
command (AUTHENTICATE) that it doesn't appear to support.

--Grant

On 2 Apr, 2007, at 11:20, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:

> Grant Baillie wrote:
>> Did you get that account setup from the Configure... button, or  
>> did you enter it yourself? It's not actually correct for the host  
>> you're trying.
> The standard configuration for fastmail.fm of
>
> Host: mail.messagingengine.com
> Port: 143
> Security: None
>
> also stopped working from my home network or office network, which  
> is why I thought there might be also a Chandler issue on top of my  
> potential misconfiguration. The auto Configure function also was  
> unable to connect, Test would not connect either, much less  
> Configure Folders.
>
> I had never gotten SSL to work from the office with  
> mail.messagingengine.com though it would work from home with port 993.
>
> As a work-around for the office, I followed this FAQ material from  
> fastmail.fm, which works for Thunderbird, but not yet for Chandler.
>
> <clip>
> FastMail.FM has a special proxy system whereby you can access each  
> service (POP, IMAP or SMTP) through any port number. The server  
> names are:
>
> IMAP: imap.proxy.fastmail.fm
> IMAP/SSL: imaps.proxy.fastmail.fm
> POP: pop.proxy.fastmail.fm
> POP/SSL: pops.proxy.fastmail.fm
> SMTP: smtp.proxy.fastmail.fm
> SMTP/SSL: smtps.proxy.fastmail.fm
>
> If you use these server names, you can use any port to access these  
> services. Commonly open ports are 80, 21, 25 and 443. Note that if  
> you use SSL you'll get a warning about a non-matching certificate  
> (it's set to 'www.fastmail.fm'): you can safely ignore this.
> <clip>
>
> Andre
>
>