Password issue

Jean-Daniel
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:46:24 -0000

> Le 12 oct. 2019 ? 03:26, @lbutlr via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>
a ?crit :
>
> On Oct 11, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, @lbutlr wrote:
>>
>>>>> Oct 09 16:02:50 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth
failed, 5 attempts in 33 secs): user=<myuser at covisp.net>, xx.xx.xx.xx,
PLAIN, TLS
>>>
>>> This turns out to have been caused by the MUA attempting to connect
to
>>> port 25 (despite clearly showing port 587 in the MUA settings).
Thanks
>>> to Mac/iOS account syncing, merely trying to change the port never
>>> seemed to work, but removing the account entirely and recreating it
got
>>> it to connect to port 587 as configured.
>>
>> Yes, MacOSX Mail.app seems to bumble around, even ignoring your
>> port settings to find the "correct" configuration.  (This
happens,
>> for example, when there is a transient network problem).  You need to
>> disable "Automatically manage connections" to stop these mail
readers
>> from wandering around and strictly use your settings.
>
> There is no such setting in iOS or iPadOS though, and setting the explicit
port for SMTP and.or IMAP advanced settings didn?t change the port it actually
tried connecting go until I removed the account and re-added it.
>
> No problems on iOS 12 or macOS 10.14 so far.

I encounter this issue on 10.14 this week, so it is present (with account using
automatic server settings).