> Am Mo, den 29.08.2005 schrieb Lovell Mcilwain um 4:59: > >> the the IMAP server but I can't seem to connect to it with my client. >> When I connect to it via >> telnet I get the following response: >> >> [lmcilwain@localhost ~]$ telnet localhost 143 >> Trying 127.0.0.1... >> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). >> Escape character is '^]'. >> * OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-6.fc4 >> server ready >> >> But when I try to connect to localhost via my mail client it tells me >> that its a failed connection >> after specifying my password. >> >> Whats so weird is that I didn't specify a password to telnet to it via >> the command prompt. Any >> ideas of what I maybe doing wrong? > > What you paste above does not show a successful IMAP login. I think you > got that wrong. It only shows the greeting message by Cyrus-IMAPd. > Running a manual IMAP connection through telnet following would have to > follow to proceed with authentication: > > 01 login <user> <password> > > Then the IMAP server would tell you whether it accepts you by the given > auth data or not. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp > Serendipity 15:26:02 up 7 days, 12:09, load average: 0.07, 0.20, 0.13 Why don't you use 'imtest' ? Luc
