[Macpartners] Possible Problem with Mail and 10.3.9

[Craig Counterman]

This has had me very sad.  I upgraded to 10.3.9 when I heard the java 
issue had been fixed and before I heard of the severity of the mail 
problem.  I had the hang of getting through my 90% spam ratio with 
Mail.app, and am not happy with the alternatives.

It seems to be something about SSL IMAP and the connection, it looks 
like the communication pauses or freezes and is lost.

However, there is a trick which seems to have worked for me, I was 
watching the discussion at

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@661.Rsqja9EMSxR.0@.68ac82c4
"Topic: Mail 1.3.11 - IMAPS support is broken?"

and someone just posted:

> Initially, at least, it looks like turning off SSL for an account, 
> letting it fail, quitting Mail, relaunching it, and then turning SSL 
> back on may work. In my environment, we require SSL for IMAP 
> connections, and cannot use IMAP without it.
>
> We haven't heavily tested this or reproduced it yet, but it may work 
> for others in the same situation.
>
> We haven't looked at corrupted mailboxes yet.

I worry that this could send your password over the net in the clear, 
at least once, so I don't endorse it myself without advise from the 
network exports.

I tried this, and it seems to have cleared up the problem for me, 
though it still has many megabytes of caching to catch up on from when 
I wiped the cache in previous trials.  I'm also coming in from a hotel 
in california, which is another variable.

Craig