On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Martyn Hill wrote:
> Having installed imap-uw2002_1,1 - I'm trying to diagnose a fault with
> OE5 reporting error 800ccc0e when trying to read the list of folders
> upon creating a new imap account in OE.
Was the text of the error message of the form:
The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'your_account',
Server:'your_IMAP_server', Protocol:IMAP, Port: 143, Secure(SSL): NO,
Socket error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800ccc0e
If so, this is the generic OE way of saying "TCP connection failed to that
server."
So, the first thing to do is to see if you can connect to the server from
the PC. Get into a Command Prompt window, and issue the command:
C:\> telnet your_IMAP_server 143
You should get back a response that starts with:
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 .....
If so, you can type:
x logout
to get out.
If you get back anything else, then either some firewall is blocking the
connection or the server was not properly installed. Either way, you
won't have much luck in "discover[ing] what UW imapd is doing" because it
never started. Check your /etc/services (and NIS/Yellow Pages/NetInfo if
you have that), and your inetd or xinetd configuration. Also check your
TCP wrappers files (/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny).
> Also (OT), should I configure Exim to save emails in .mbx format into
> /var/mail $user ready for IMAP-UW, or to save them as standard UNIX
> mailboxes and let IMAP-UW convert them ready for the client?
I recommend that you do the latter.
> Also, what does the IMAP-UW documentation mean when it refers to "black-box"
> mode?
Ignore the stuff about black-box mode. If you made the mistake of
creating a /etc/c-client.cf file, I strongly recommend that you
immediately delete that file. You need to get things working with UW
imapd in its default ("mandatory default") configuration before you even
think about making non-standard modifications. /etc/c-client.cf is for
senior sorcerers' use, only after everything has been made to work in the
standard configuration. Junior sorcerers and sorcerer's apprentices are
better off not having such a file.
-- Mark --
http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
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