Monday, March 21, 2016

iPhone Mail IMAP setup with iRedMail Server not working via SSL (SOLVED)

Enable port 993 IMAPs to get iPhone Mail app to work with IMAP against iRedMail (dovecot) server.


I have a iredmail server fully working with many IMAP clients (Outlook, Mac Mail, Thunderbird, etc...), however I have been battling getting it to work on IOS / iPhone Mail IMAP client.

After hours of toiling and googling, I found the solution (or issue). The secret is to enable port 993 (IMAP SSL / IMAPs) protocol in my firewall NAT rules. Meaning I had to port forward port 993 also for IMAPs. I guess this is because the iPhone does not support IMAP SSL TLS with STARTSSL using only port 143.

I hope this clue help save time for somebody else.

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