Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> telnet <myserver> 993 >> I just get >> Trying <server IP address> >> and nothing further, until I type ctrl-C. > Check /var/log/messages to see if anything is logged. The behavior of > telnet sounds like the behavior of openssl. It's probably not the No, he doesn't even get a tcp connection established. If I telnet to my IMAP server I see telnet 192.168.0.xx 993 Trying 192.168.0.xx... Connected to 192.168.0.xx. Escape character is '^]'. I would first confirm that something is still listening on your external network interface on 993. Why not tcpdump it over your ssh session to the server while you try to connect and see what you can see. Another more exotic workaround would be, on your local machine ssh root@myserver -N -L993:localhost:993 while this runs, 993 (the first number) on your local client box will magically be an encrypted wormhole to port 993 on myserver. Try running that in one terminal session, and temporarily alter kmail to go look at localhost for IMAP instead of myserver. -Andy
