[Tfug] Exim+SSL+Eudora oddity [update]

[Nick Lopez]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:33:51AM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 07:25:32PM -0700, Benjamin Krein wrote:
> Well, I have resolved the problem, though not in the way I had hoped.  Like
> you I just had to give up on Eudora.  Also, like you, this isn't the first
> time I've had "issues" with Eudora and TLS/SSL.
> 
> Google was really no help at all trying to figure out what "Bad Record MAC"
> meant.  I found a number of people experiencing the same error, but not a
> single resolution nor even a basic explanation.  The SSL docs had one 10 word
> sentence devoted to this error message which was useless.

  Actually, I just had a breakthrough with what sounds like the same problem
with Eudora being stupid with SSL, I'm using Dovecot-IMAP though.  I think
it turned out to be an issue with the ordering of certificates, I guess I
had the RootCA, Intermediate CA, server certs catted in the wrong order. 
Thunderbird didn't care, but Eudora threw a tantrum.  It was that, or the
upgrade of dovecot, but it's happy now.

> So... goodbye Eudora!  I have this person using Mozilla Thunderbird now which,
  Good riddence!

> I must say, seems like a much better program than Eudora.  Plus it imported
> the old Eudora data just fine.
  Really? You don't say... I moved my boss to IMAP email this week, but the
batch conversion of his huge pile of Eudora folders I did misplaced lots of
messages, so if Thunderbird can import the folder structure reliably AND let
me copy whole folder trees up to the server easilly I'd make my life easier.

  - Nick Lopez
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