[BlueOnyx:07389] Re: SMTP from Android 2.2.2

[Doug Harvey]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick <robert at webtent.org>wrote:

> 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 :)
>




Interesting. I have an EVO and have been able to use the messaging without
an issue. Granted, it's not with BX, so I'm not much help there.

Doug

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