Entourage 2004 and secure IMAP problems

[oldlibmike]

I'm using Entourage 2004 with secure IMAP on port 993 running on a home
Linux server (Mandrake 9.2).

When running entourage, it complains that it cannot verify the certificate of
my server - yes I added it - its a bug in Entourage and this is reported all
over the internet.

After proceeding an error 1025 is returned with the nonsensical message:
Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection.

Whaaaat? 1777 is actually no protection at all - my permissions on that
directory are 755 - hardly restrictive. Changing them screws up Linux
Postfix royally so I do not wish to change them.

As it stands Entourage is useless with secure IMAP on Linux and I have to
resort to Apple's Mail.app - not a bad thing for me, but for reasons
unknown my wife is fond of Entourage.

Having just shelled out the upgrade price from Entourage.X I'm not happy.
Has anyone got secure IMAP working properly against a Linux server?

 

[Richard Kmieciak]

How did you add the cert? You'll need to use Keychain now rather than IE.

Thanks,
Richard

 

[Guest]

I added it via keychain, self-signed certificate - the IMAP server in question
is in my basement exactly 20 feet below my Mac and on my home network.
Do I need to use a public certificate or can I somehow get this working? It
works great with Mail.app just not Entourage. Do you have any specifics as
to which keychain it needs to be in? If I manage to get the certificate in, will
it fix the error trying to use 1777 as the permissions on /var/spool/mail?

TIA,
Mike

 

[oldlibmike]

Progress - I got the certificate to add with some experimentation. Now, I get
the error "Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777
protection" when I try to access my Inbox.

I'm not a Postfix expert, but when I tried changing /var/spool/mail to 1777
my messages did not go into unix mailboxes but into individual files -
perhaps this is a Linux issue, but why does Entourage care about the
permissions of my mail box? And why now? Entourage.X never had a
problem.

TIA,
Mike

 

[Richard Kmieciak]

If you'd like to e-mail me directly with the root cert & a test account, I
can try to help figure out the certificate end of this. I'm not familiar
with the "mailbox vulnerable" issue, but I might be help to figure out the
SSL part.


Thanks,
Richard