OlaMontan

Q: Mail server in El Capitan not working from iPhone

I made a clean install of El Capitan 10.11.2 and then Server 5.0.15 on my local network. Then I started the mail server from Server to use it as my IMAP mail server.

 

It works just fine från all my Mac's (Apple Mail or Thunderbird) and PC's (Thunderbird).

 

But when I try to read my e-mail från an iPhone or Android, it doesn't work. My iPhone complains that "Logins are disabled for "xxx" where "xxx" is one of the users that I created from Server. The mail.log file doesn't get any new entries when trying. One thing that disturb me is that the status line in the Mail screen in Server says "Available on your local network at Server.local" instead of "Available at montan.biz" at it was in my previous installation that worked.

 

What can be wrong?

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 8, 2016 3:30 AM

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  • by FromOZ,

    FromOZ FromOZ Jan 9, 2016 8:52 AM in response to OlaMontan
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    Jan 9, 2016 8:52 AM in response to OlaMontan

    That's good - if it solved then you should mark it as solved so people searching in the future can see that the question was resolved.

  • by OlaMontan,

    OlaMontan OlaMontan Jan 9, 2016 9:27 AM in response to FromOZ
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    Jan 9, 2016 9:27 AM in response to FromOZ

    I marked it as "solved".

     

    By the way, when I wrote "as there is not too much help ... on the Internet" then I meant pages like http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html but concerning Mac OS Server. The help that I got from you is just fantastic, and I really, really appreciate that you made so much effort in helping me in this matter.

     

    I will definitely look at some other of the advice that you gave me, like an internal DNS server. I also blocked port 143 in my firewall now, for security reasons and are just running SSL.

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