Mark
Thank you very much. After working on something else entirely (getting samba
and samba-tng working simultaneously) and then having to reboot the server,
I find this morning that IMAP-UW is working perfectly!
The server has been rebooted several times since the imap sw was installed,
so I am none the wiser as to what was 'wrong' before. However, I can now
move on and get our full email system up and running (in between teaching
classes...)
I intend to offer a webmail interface to the staff and pupils once the core
system is operational and have had my eye on "Prayer". Do you have any
advice on this arrangement?
Thanks again.
Martyn Hill
Network Administrator
St James Independent School
London
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Crispin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martyn Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "IMAP-UW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: troubleshooting imap-uw with outlook express, error code
800ccc0e
> 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
> Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
>
