[Users] claws-mail impap-error Port 993 tls on Macos

[Stephan Hesse]

Hey,

After a break from installing Claws-Mail on macOS, I tried the whole
thing once with the Macports. So I completely uninstalled homebrew and
then installed the Macports and
https://ports.macports.org/port/claws-mail/

Synced from Linux to macOS via rsync/ssh. After a start, claws-mail
immediately worked to its full extent. The "TLS handshake failed" error
no longer occurred.

At that time, all attempts to compile claws-mail myself failed. No
imap/TLS/SSL worked with homebrew
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/claws-mail either. (TLS handshake
failed)

My wife is happy with her E-mails from 12 years of using claws-mail now
on macOS ;-}

Maybe someone has an idea why it now works with the macports.org!

Many greetings
Steffe


Am Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:31:10 +0100
schrieb Stephan Hesse <stephan at briefhansa.de>:

> Hey David,
> 
> Thank you for your offer to program a patch for claws-mail.
> 
> In the meantime the new versions 4.2.0 and 3.20.0 have been released.
> I had tried to compile claws-mail for Intel(!) Macos with both
> versions. Unfortunately, make still does not run without errors.
> 
> My problem is still receiving e-mail via imaps/993. Sending e-mail via
> port 587 works!
> Still this error message:
> * Account 'Briefhansa': Connect to IMAP-Server: 
> mail.briefhansa.de:993...
> *** TLS handshake failed
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Greetings Steffe
> 
> 
> Am Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:59:30 +0000
> schrieb "David Fletcher" <David at megapico.co.uk>:
> 
> > At last - a solution to the Mac network issue. It appears to be a
> > problem with the OS logging something, which then fails,
> > particularly in a multi-threaded environment. That still sound
> > vague, but the problem can be made to go away by setting this
> > environment variable before starting claws:
> > 
> > export OS_ACTIVITY_MODE=disable
> > 
> > Claws then gets immediate network access without issues. Others have
> > also spotted this issue, e.g. here:
> > https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/739571 and more on the
> > underlying issues here:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589809
> > 
> > I'll sort out the patch to enable compile on MacOS after I clean up
> > the code in the next few days. Then we should have Claws working
> > completely on recent Macs.
> > 
> > Best wishes, David.