[BlueOnyx:07387] Re: SMTP from Android 2.2.2

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

On 5/25/2011 8:43 PM, Dogsbody wrote:
>> Hmm...on my Motorola Android Atrix phone, there is a standard, already
>> built-in, application called 'Messaging' where you setup email accounts
>> similar to most phone email setup. This is where the customer wants to
>> setup his email.
> +1 for using K9 Mail on Android.  It is actually a more advanced version
> of the built in Android Messaging.  They forked the code and immensely
> enhanced it with code slowly moving back into official Android
> Messaging.  K9 Mail supports all of the latest IMAP commands which means
> you get push notifications and very fast mail.
>
> If I had to guess I would say you are using a self signed of cheap SSL
> certificate.  I know you are saying you ave SSL off but it would match
> the problem perfectly as sendmail would never get a valid command.
>
> Last I checked the inbuilt Android Messaging client doesn't have a way
> to manually approve an SSL cert that it can't validate and just silently
> fails.
Yeah, it does fit, but not using SSL at all. You mean you think Android 
is requiring SSL even when you don't want it to? I setup a fresh BX 
server with nothing but updates without SMTPS enabled. Same problem.
> K9 Mail can do this, it's a free app and is probably at least worth
> trying as a debugging tool so you know if it's a problem with the
> network/phone or the server.
>
I agree, it's great, and works fine, I'll be using it for sure...but 
those pesky customers just want things to work out of the box :)