vista mail cannot connect/authenticate to a Linux Dovecot impa server- anybody.

[nobody]

All my servers are running Linux

The imap server is Dovecot the authentication mechanisms available at
the server end are: digest-md5, cram-md5 gssapi and login.

I get an error code of
Account: mail.example.co
Server: mail.example.com
User name: ....
Protocol:IMAP
Port:993
Secure(SSL):1
Code:800cccdf

anybody got any ideas whats wrong and how get this working?

NoBody

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

That doesn't look like a Windows Mail error message. Which mail
client program are you running? If Windows Live Mail, you will get
more help by posting that issue in the WLM newsgroup:

via your news reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[nobody]

The client program is Windows Mail that comes with Vista.
The error occurs whenever I try to connect to the server (IMAP), getting
mail, updating the folders list etc.
NoBody

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Your issue is probably related to how Dovecot is configured on your Linux box.
I don't see any obviously wrong settings, but then I know nothing about Dovecot.
If you want to test your Windows Mail with a standard IMAP account you can
set up a Gmail IMAP account on it:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77696

Note: Always quote the post you are replying to. That way we have some continuity.

 

[Canuck57]

The client program is Windows Mail that comes with Vista.
The error occurs whenever I try to connect to the server (IMAP), getting
mail, updating the folders list etc.
NoBody

Forget Vista mail, it only seems to work with Micro$oft servers.
Anything else it is most likely to not work well if at all.

It caused me to switch to Thunderbird. And haven't looked back. I have
mail accounts all over the place and want one mail/news client and
Thunderbird does it well. Vista mail and Live junk failed miserably.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/