On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Matt Alexander wrote: > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY > UNSELECT SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] > Pre-authenticated user m localhost IMAP4rev1 2003.338 at Tue, 9 Sep 2003 > 16:48:23 -0700 (PDT)
This means that the IMAP server is logged in as "m". No login is needed or accepted. Running the IMAP server as non-root is intended to be done solely when the communications link deals with authentication in some other way (e.g. rsh or ssh external authentication). > When I issue commands like Login, I get "BAD Missing command". I'm using > SquirrelMail as my IMAP client to try and connect, but it fails with: > Bad request: Command unrecognized: LOGIN You can't log in when you are already logged in. > Any ideas on how to get this to work? Run imapd as root if you don't want it automatically logged in. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
