From: Brett Dikeman (brett.dikemangmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 13:08:15 CDT

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On 8/13/07, Yu Chen <chenhhmi.umbc.edu> wrote:

> I just set up a postfix + dovecot server. Everything seems fine. Strange
> thing is that for email clients like thunderbird, pine, and mutt all are
> working fine. But in Mac Mail, I can't send mail. No specific error
> messages from Mac Mail. In maillog on postfix server, I have the
> following:

Well, at the least, you have an SSL error; I don't know enough to tell
you what, though. I'd be fairly surprised if that isn't logged by
Apple Mail. Have you checked console.log (via command-line or the
Console application), or did "no specific error messages" mean "I
didn't get a error dialog box"?

A couple of guesses regarding SSL: Is your cert signed by a real CA or
your own CA? Are you sure it's set up correctly? In particular, are
you sure the certificate matches the hostname given by the server's
banner message? Telnet to port 25 and see...

If the cert is signed by your own CA, Apple Mail won't trust it unless
you've added it to the X.509 keychain via Keychain Access AND
(probably) logged the active user out+back in again. Had to do that
with certificates signed by a private CA and iChat AV.

Brett

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