dovecot - Nov 2008 - Dovecot error with Symbian mail client

Greetings list,

I have recently acquired an Nokia E71 (which comes with Symbian 3rd
edition, feature pack 3 I believe). Accessing my emails has worked
before, but now, I cannot connect to the mail server any longer.

If I enable verbose_ssl, I get the following error in the log:

SSL_accept() failed: error:140943F2:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3
alert unexpected message [141.84.69.67]

I cannot access my mail, the dialog just closes and the wireless
connection ends.

I am using dovecot version 1.0.13 and my config is

# 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imaps
ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

Thanks for your answers!

Regards,
Jan Seeger

PS: I have tested the symbian client with gmail, and it works. So the
problem is probably a bug in the communication between the symbian
client and dovecot.

jeeger at thenybble.de wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> I have recently acquired an Nokia E71 (which comes with Symbian 3rd
> edition, feature pack 3 I believe). Accessing my emails has worked
> before, but now, I cannot connect to the mail server any longer.
Worked before with this phone?  I have this exact phone and have no
issues with Dovecot here.
> If I enable verbose_ssl, I get the following error in the log:
>
> SSL_accept() failed: error:140943F2:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3
> alert unexpected message [141.84.69.67]
>
> I cannot access my mail, the dialog just closes and the wireless
> connection ends.
>
> I am using dovecot version 1.0.13 and my config is
Update!!!  I'm using 1.1.3, there have been many many times updating has
fixed someone's problems on this list.

For completeness here is my dovecot -n
# 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 1
verbose_proctitle: yes
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode: 432
      user: postfix
      group: postfix

Jonathan

On Nov 13, 2008, at 5:52 PM, jeeger at thenybble.de wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> I have recently acquired an Nokia E71 (which comes with Symbian 3rd
> edition, feature pack 3 I believe). Accessing my emails has worked
> before, but now, I cannot connect to the mail server any longer.
>
> If I enable verbose_ssl, I get the following error in the log:
>
> SSL_accept() failed: error:140943F2:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3
> alert unexpected message [141.84.69.67]
In general SSL issues are unlikely to be directly Dovecot-related.  
Usually it's a generic OpenSSL problem, possibly a buggy OpenSSL  
installation or something..

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Thanks for the replies.

I guess Timo is right, since I already
upgraded from 1.0.9 to version 1.0.13. So I probably need to change my
openssl version. What would be the easiest way to do that, since I'm
on an debian etch server, which (I think) I cant upgrade?

Regards,
Jan Seeger

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:33:03 +0200,
Timo Sirainen wrote:
<snip> 
> In general SSL issues are unlikely to be directly Dovecot-related.  
> Usually it's a generic OpenSSL problem, possibly a buggy OpenSSL  
> installation or something..
I just noticed that the server time is off by one hour (and I can't
set it correctly). Could that lead to an ssl problem? I've heard it
screws with kerberos, so...

Regards,
Jan Seeger

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:52:46 -0000 (UTC),
Jan Seeger wrote:
> 
> Greetings list,
> 
> I have recently acquired an Nokia E71 (which comes with Symbian 3rd
> edition, feature pack 3 I believe). Accessing my emails has worked
> before, but now, I cannot connect to the mail server any longer.
> 
> If I enable verbose_ssl, I get the following error in the log:
> 
> SSL_accept() failed: error:140943F2:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3
> alert unexpected message [141.84.69.67]
> 
> I cannot access my mail, the dialog just closes and the wireless
> connection ends.
Funnily enough, a hard reset cured this prooblem and I can now happily
access my mail. Probably a problem with the preinstalled software...

Regards,
Jan Seeger