Since changing to Dovecot as the server, IMAP email now works beautifully on the iPhone. At least, once I’d deleted the account and re-typed in all the details (that non-standard IMAP port bug totally screws your account, it just hangs when you change settings even when you change the port back to 993).
I can now check email in seconds, even over GPRS/EDGE. Hooray.
So the moral is, if you want to use IMAP with the iPhone, don’t use uw-imap as the server. At least, not with an Inbox of 3000 messages… (not that that should make much difference, the iPhone simply grabs the most recent 50 by default).
One Response
Eric Pfleckl
31|Oct|2009 1Thanks for the post! I had recently switched to dovecot with SSL and could not connect after changing the port on my iPhone. Deleting the account and recreating did the trick.