James Turnbull writes:
When connecting with Outlook Express to Courier-IMAP over SSL I get a large
volume of :
Unexpected SSL connection shutdown.
and associated messages in my maillog. I am aware this means my mail client
[...]
You will probably want to resolve this before checking into another client.
Maybe posting some client & server settings you have set?
Or can anyone recommend a better mail client that works with IMAP over SSL
under Windows XP to replace Outlook? Preferably a low cost option given
Outlook is free.
MS Outlook isn't free.
Eudora was suggested as an alternative - I personally found it inconvenient
to have to convert and merge my certificate into a new .p7b file for Eudora,
and the IMAP folder listing is all incorrect - I got the folders to show
inline, but then they ALSO showed as subfolders of INBOX. Bleh. Eudora used
to be my client of choice, but their lack of updates, and bad IMAP + SSL
implementations made me move away. Plus the sponsored mode is annoying ;)
As an excellent alternative, I'd suggest Mozilla. It's completely free,
cross platform (now I can use same settings on my linux boxes, and Windows
boxes, and any others I may decide to setup), easy to import root
certificate (same way as IE - just access your CA.crt through a web
browser), and so far is giving me excellent performance. Not to mention the
continuous development and plenty of open support. Plus if you find any
bugs, submit to Bugzilla - they even like duplicates!
Maybe to diagnose the above program, try Mozilla and see if you get
disconnect errors also. If not, then it may be a setting in Outlook. If so,
it may be a setting in Courier. For additional help on both clients, might I
suggest,
http://karmak.org/2003/courier-imap
Hope this helps,
/jesse
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