[TriLUG] Blackberry with TriLUG mail?

[Matt Pusateri]

I never had luck getting my treo to connect to my own mail server.  I  
could specify the port and server and tls or not, but never got past  
the self-signed cert

On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:35 PM, William Sutton wrote:

> I would have figured specifying the username and password would take  
> care
> of that portion of the authentication process.  I also would have  
> figured
> that configuring TLS on the phone to allow proxies and to use
> mail.trilug.org as a SSL/TLS server would fix that part.  The unsigned
> cert probably doesn't help, but I think the biggest obstacle seembs  
> to be
> my inability to configure the phone to know it has to use TLS, and  
> what
> port to connect to.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Matt Pusateri wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2009, at 8:05 PM, William Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone set up a blackberry with the TriLUG mail server yet?
>>>
>>> I set up TLS (using TLS Default set to proxy (the default
>>> configuration)
>>> on my new Blackberry Curve as follows:
>>>
>>> Options | Security Options | TLS | Trusted Hosts
>>> click the menu button
>>> Add Host
>>> enter mail.trilug.org
>>> Save
>>>
>>> I can enter my email address, user name, and password, and the error
>>> email
>>> that blackberry sends to my trilug address indicates that I have it
>>> set
>>> for:
>>>
>>> Account Type:POP3/IMAP
>>> Email Address:william <at> trilug <dot> org
>>> User Name: william
>>> Password:****** (For security the password is not displayed.)
>>> Mail Server:mail.trilug.org
>>>
>>> I'm guessing I need to change POP3/IMAP to TLS/IMAP, but am not sure
>>> how.
>>>
>>> William Sutton
>>
>>
>> I'm gonna guess the following.
>> 1. Trilug rejects mail unless your authenticated, and I'd hope we
>> force tls/ssl connections
>> 2. Trilug uses a self-signed certificate
>> 3. Your blackberry will fail with said self signed certificate.
>>
>> I found the setup of mail on most phones leaves a lot to be desired.
>>
>> Matt P.
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