iPhone receives e-mail but empty contents

Technolust

I’ve got an iPhone using apple mail as the client. When I open some emails I get a loading circle… I look at the firewall and notice ports 123 and 7000 coming to the device. 123 NTP 7000 looks to be afs3-file server. Anyone else see this issue? If I turn off wifi emails come in just fine. Also there is no rhyme or reason as to which emails come through and which don’t. I’ve got two emails from Amazon one came through fine the other didn’t.

Gertjan

@technolust said in iPhone receives e-mail but empty contents:

Anyone else see this issue?

I'm pretty sure that Apple didn't 'break' their mail client lately, as billions would have yelled by now.
I'm using the mail client myself and have a dozen or so mails set up.
A couple for ISP type mail addresses, and the other all work with my own postfix mail server, and my own domain names.
Some are using IMAP, some use POP, all are using the TLS port 993,995.
SMTP is always port 465.

I can 'tail' the IMAP and POP logs on my mail server, so I can see what my iPhone does when it looks and loads mails.
Idem for SMTP.

My phone uses wifi, connects to lcoal Access points, that is connected to the pfSense LAN port.
That interface just has one firewall rule : a pass all (ports, addresses, protocols) rule.

I don't know what or who uses port 7000, or who "afs3-file server" is.

Technolust

@gertjan Thanks gertjan, I didn’t think it was Apple I figured it was a setting on the firewall but couldn’t find one. I can tell you last night I did some research and saw a post that someone mentioned to create a static ip under the dhcp server for the iPhone. I did that and so far it has resolved the issue. It sure why but it worked well until it doesn’t. Now as for setting up a postfix mail exchanger that is something I need to figure out….

Gertjan

@technolust said in iPhone receives e-mail but empty contents:

to create a static ip under the dhcp server for the iPhone

Your iPhone will use its DHCP client as soon as the Wifi comes up.
It will get an IP, network, gateway and DNS.
You can check these by inspecting the wifi details as soon as you are connected.

No need to set up static IP settings.

You could create a DHCP MAC based lease on the pfSense side. From now on, your iPhone will always have the same IP. I'm not sure if there is any advantage doing this.

If there were any issues when getting a DHCP lease from pfSense, you would not have only 'mail' issues, but a lot of issues.

@technolust said in iPhone receives e-mail but empty contents:

Now as for setting up a postfix mail exchanger that is something I need to figure out….

Only complete morons run there own mail server ;)
I've one for just one reasons : I wanted to know if I was able to do so.
I've mentioned my mail server as it permits me to see how mail clients like pHones, Outlook 365 etc connect to it.

Technolust

Thanks gertjan.... I guess I'm one of those morons because that is the exact reason I want to setup my own mail server. I know it's a boat load of maintenance but it's also a learning experience...

As for the DHCP...

You could create a DHCP MAC based lease on the pfSense side.

This is exactly what I did. I can't remember where I read it but so far that has seemed to work. The only thing I could think of is a Duplicate IP but I don't see the pre-static IP address anywhere on the network or in the pfsense logs. So who knows... Somewhere lost in the ether-realm of cached items...