I apologize; I'm just under a lot of stress right now. I should have reacted differently.
I tried the telnet thing and it all worked correctly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ telnet bullet 143 Trying 192.168.1.2... Connected to bullet.espersunited.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 login michael <censored> 1 OK Logged in. 2 logout * BYE Logging out 2 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. I still can't log into the IMAP server from evolution. Does it matter that there aren't any folders under my account on the server? What's the next thing I should check? I don't have a /var/log/pam or anything similar. I checked /var/log/messages (the only one that seemed relevant) and my telnet login was logged. I opened up evolution and tried to connect to the IMAP server and failed, then went back to /var/log/messages. My attempt from evolution was not listed there... --- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:27:47 -0800 (PST) > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I'm not saying that dovecot is documentation-free. > > > I'm saying that I don't understand the > documentation. > > I'm very tired. My wife and I moved here a week > ago > > and I'm trying to get our world running again. > I'm > > managing three PC's at this moment running Gentoo > and > > fighting the urge to fall asleep. This new > apartment > > is very cramped, and although I admit that I > probably > > shouldn't I shouldn't be attempting this or any > other > > way to make myself useful after all I've been > through > > - the strokes should have killed me according to > the > > neurologists at St. Louis University Hospital - > but I > > refuse to accept Social Security checks every > month > > without at least attempting to give something back > to > > society. I'm saying I need help to understand the > > material.... > > OK now I feel bad, That was a poor attempt to say > RTFM and I have been > outed as a bad mannered troll, please accept my > apology. > > If you are having authentication problems (and they > sound like similar > problems with dovecot and uw) I would: > > 1. try logging in via telnet and see what you get. a > typical telnet > login session goes like this: > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]$ telnet www 143 > Trying 192.168.1.55... > Connected to www. > Escape character is '^]'. > * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN > NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES > SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] > Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double > Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution > information. > >>> 1 login nick xxxxxx > 1 OK LOGIN Ok. > >>> 2 logout > * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down > 2 OK LOGOUT completed > Connection closed by foreign host. > > xxxxx is the password of course. > the lines marked >>>> are the only ones you have to > input. > > imap has this command sequence where you put a > unique identifier at the > start of the line, and the reply has the same > identifier. I used 1 and 2 - anything at the start > of the line will do. > > 2. Now if you didn't get a connection, the server is > not running for > some reason. > > 3. if you get a connection but no login go see your > logs - puddle around > in /var/log - you need to be root to look at most of > those files. > > 4. I would suspect pam or something of the sort. > > > > > > > --- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:36:49 -0800 (PST) > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > > > I've unmerged uw-imap and emerged dovecot. > I've > > > got > > > > dovecot running, but it still won't take my > > > password > > > > when I enter it in evolution. I haven't > messed > > > with > > > > the /etc/dovecot.conf file because I don't > know > > > what > > > > I'm doing. I used uw-imap before on my FC1 > box > > > > because it installed that by default and it > only > > > > required a little configuration alteration to > work > > > > out-of-the-box. Do I need to alter > > > /etc/dovecot.conf > > > > to get my mail server to work? I opened it up > in > > > vim > > > > and the opening comment said that I didn't > need to > > > > uncomment any of the lines except for the > paths. > > > Are > > > > these paths the default paths for an emerged > > > dovecot > > > > (Are the default paths correct for my system)? > > > > > > are you saying that dovecot is entirely > > > documentation free? or that you > > > have tried to configure it according to its docs > and > > > for some reason it > > > is not working? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. 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