Alright gurus:
I need help again - not surprising. I have 2 domains that point to
my LM 7.2 (2.2.19 kernel) server. I have postfix setup and
imap-4.7c2-4mdk installed. The pop3 works flawlessly. I am trying to
further my mail handling knowledge and I want to use IMAP to get my mail
instead of pop3, simply for flexibility reasons. I use Netscape to
access my mail. (and Pegasus and K-mail when netscape won't work) I have
multiple mailboxes and I want to try and use IMAP to consolidate access
to my mail on my server that is received in /var/spool/mail/username.
IMAP seems to offer a solution.
I can send mail to my server and I can retrieve mail from my server
with the ipop3d executable without any problem. I simply cannot access
my mail with imapd through netscape. I have read all the docs
pertaining to imap-4.7c2-4mdk and from what I gleen from the
information, IMAP should be basically "plug-n-play" from the basic
install. The only requirement is that you have port 143 open and port
(220 ssl) open to access your mail with IMAP. Well, I've done that and I
still can't access my mail with IMAP.
The problem has to be something basic enough to keep me up until
2:00 am -- it always works out that way. I have Netscape mail (IMAP)
configured to point to my server and it just never connects. I mean, I
can sent mail to my server from home and it is automatically received by
my server. I have the ports open. The tail -f /var/spool/mail/david
shown below confirms mail is received by my server and I can get it
using POP3. I just can't get IMAP to work. The following is my
/etc/services as it relates to IMAP:
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# /etc/services:
<snip>
imap2 143/tcp imap # Interim Mail Access
Proto v2
imap2 143/udp imap
<snip>
imap3 220/tcp # Interactive Mail
Access
imap3 220/udp # Protocol v3
<snip>
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I tested the following just to confirm there was mail to be gotten:
[root@Nemesis david]# tail -f /var/spool/mail/david
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fricking test
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I hope Imap lives.....
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 26 22:13:21 2001
>From david Thu Jul 26 22:13:21 2001
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from io.cox-internet.com (io-cox.cox-internet.com
[208.180.118.41])
by Nemesis.rbpllc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6625C18DA90
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:13:21 +0000
(/etc/localtime)
Received: from rbpllc.com ([66.76.40.151]) by io.cox-internet.com
(InterMail vK.4.02.00.10 201-232-116-110 license
dd72657b95c070b1853187e4f5a0d6a7)
with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:11:52 -0500
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:13:08 -0500
From: David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-NSCPCD (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Second test to Imap
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This still better work
***************************************************************************
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 26 22:14:57 2001
>From david Thu Jul 26 22:14:57 2001
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from io.cox-internet.com (io-cox.cox-internet.com
[208.180.118.41])
by Nemesis.rbpllc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4246018DA8E
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:14:57 +0000
(/etc/localtime)
Received: from rbpllc.com ([66.76.40.151]) by io.cox-internet.com
(InterMail vK.4.02.00.10 201-232-116-110 license
dd72657b95c070b1853187e4f5a0d6a7)
with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:13:28 -0500
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:14:44 -0500
From: David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-NSCPCD (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Another Test to R-B.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Test to R-B.com
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The following shows the present setup:
[root@Nemesis david]# rpm -qa | grep imap
imap-4.7c2-4mdk
php-imap-4.0.3pl1-1mdk
[root@Nemesis david]#
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The mail gets to my server in about 1 second : ) I can get it using
pop3d without any problem. What I need is HELP on how to access the mail
on my server via IMAP instead of POP3. Should I give up on IMAP and just
stick to POP3? What am I missing? What am I screwing up? I don't know
what else to try. Any words of wisdom will be greatly appreciated.
Rusty, do you have IMAP working -- or was that the problem with multiple
posts hitting the list? (Just kidding) I need help. Is IMAP worth it?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
ASEL -- Instrument
Nacogdoches, Texas
N31 34.7 W094 42.6
355 MSL
