[MlMt] server is lost; disconnects; fails

[Tracy Kent Valleau]

Thanks Henry. Been there; done that.

I'm running a Mac Studio M2 with Tahoe 26.5. MailMate is version 2.0 (6292). I'm using ethernet from my router, not wifi. I created a new user to no avail. I did a power off of my modem and my router. No change. I purged the DNS. I rebuilt the account; I deleted the account and then re-created it. Nada.

I tried creating a new Outlook account. I would not "verify".
I tried creating a new Thunderbird account. Works perfectly. (In fact, faster than anything else).
I tried webmail. Works just fine.
I deleted and rebuilt the Mail account. Works, but slow.
I deleted and rebuilt the MailMate account. same thing: sometimes it connects; sometimes it drops, sometimes I get spinning pinwheels until I do a force quit.
I tried on my MacBook Air 4  using wifi, and MailMate took 58 seconds to connect, and then worked... until it didn't.

So at this point, there is a lack of consistency which makes debugging an issue. (I've been doing this kind of thing since 1978.)

Since it varies by software and perhaps device, I'm beginning to suspect the problem may lay with the server certificate at Dreamhost, which is self-signed.