On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:00:09 +0100 Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Di, den 07.12.2004 schrieb Timothy Murphy um 3:19: > > > At present I get email directly on my laptop > > in /var/spool/mail/* through uucp. > > I'd like to get the email on the same directory > > on my desktop (alfred), and then run a mail server on the destop > > and collect the email on my laptop (william) > > (or on other computers on my two little home LANs, ethernet and > > WiFi). > > > > I am able to access my desktop with telnet from my laptop: > > ============================================ > > [tim@william ~]$ telnet alfred 143 > > Trying 192.168.1.1... > > Connected to alfred. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > * OK dovecot ready. > > So the IMAP server runs. > > > Unfortunately, neither fetchmail not KMail on my laptop > > seem able to retrieve mail from my desktop. > > > > With fetchmail I get the error message: > > ============================================ > > [tim@william ~]$ fetchmail alfred > > fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != > > alfred fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain > > != alfred > > This would indicate certificate usage. In which case you could add this line to dovecot.conf: ssl_disable = yes Dovecot writes its messages to /var/log/maillog. You could try to telnet to port 143 and try a conversation like this: telnet alfred 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE AUTH=PLAIN 1 OK Capability completed. 2 LOGIN tim whatever 2 OK Logged in. If you get this far then dovecot is working. Regards, Chris
