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Anybody ever had problems with an #iphone and #IMAP on a #selfhosted #email server? Feel free to boost for fun.

I was just helping my wife and her mail app (iPhone 13, iOS 18.3.2) would just spin saying “connecting”. I’m standing next to her, with my iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18.3.2 and I’m on the same WiFi checking email on the same server just fine.

I tried a bunch of things. Rebooting, using cellular data instead of WiFi, closing the mail app and opening it again. Nothing fixed it. The root cause seems to have been low power mode. Her battery was low; so the phone was in low power mode. I plugged it in, took it out of low power mode, and poof! Mail connects just fine.

This is reproducible. If I go to low power mode and pull down on the screen to try to fetch, no imap. It just spins saying “connecting.” Come out of low power mode, imap is fine and fast. One thing we both do that is not the default is fetch email. The default is to push, and the phone polls quite often. I figure that’s a waste of battery, so we have ours set to fetch every 30 minutes. I’m a bit of a nut, so there are probably LOTS of other things that are not the default.

Anybody have any ideas?

I’m sure all of us have used low power mode before, and I’m fairly sure I’ve checked email under low power mode. I’ve never seen this before. #selfhosting

@delta @feld @adbenitez
I've been trying #deltachat with #chatmail and normal #imap server the last few days (since my last messages). One thing I miss is a device management feature. For example, in case a device gets lost, I would like to be able to remove access. Afaik this is still not supported, correct? In that case, what would be the best way to discuss this as a feature proposal?

I've been working on a document

Zwangsmigration von IMAP-Postfächern zu Microsoft:

"Daten würden künftig auf allen Geräten synchronisiert […], heißt es in der Mail. Zudem sei Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung möglich"

Synchronisation war doch der Gedanke hinter der Entwicklung von IMAP. Und 2FA sollte doch inzwischen jeder anbieten können.

(Ok, bei "klassischem" IMAP läuft es auf Anwendungspasswort hinaus. Aber auch da gibt es Möglichkeiten.)

#IMAP #2FA #HostEurope
heise.de/news/Host-Europe-bitt

heise online · Host Europe stellt Mailpostfächer um: Es drohen Mehrkosten
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@ndw I've been a happy customer of #Fastmail (they're on Mastodon, too: @fastmail) since January 2018, and can comfortably recommend them if you're looking for a solid email host.
They're based in #Australia, and have full support for #IMAP, #CalDAV, #CardDAV, as-well as #JMAP if your tool(s) supports that. I like that they only do email and do it well. No ever-expanding product suite of tools I don't really need, nor any confusion on who the customer is. Nice and straight-forward :).

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Bin gerade sooo zufrieden. #Dovecot ist auf #FreeBSD nun so konfiguriert, dass ich weiterhin #mutt und #procmail wie gewohnt nutzen kann und parallel dazu, ohne Konflikte, #IMAP Clients wie #K9Mail und #Thunderbird.

Nicht, dass ich mit #mutt unzufrieden wäre: Aber gerade am Smartphone ist #K9Mail schon praktischer als mit #connectbot via ssh #mutt zu bedienen.

Und manche Emails sind - leider - mit Thunderbird besser zu handhaben, z.B. solche mit Bestätigungs-URLs mit > 512 Zeichen.