I'm trying to access gmail from RHEL 6 with below command and getting "unknown command" error, please let me know how to fix it...
openssl s_client -crlf -connect imap.gmail.com:993 * OK Gimap ready for requests from 192.81.68.110 ip4if329360vdb.60 login [email protected] mypass login BAD Unknown command ip4if329360vdb.60 ----------- On Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:19:11 PM UTC-5, shadebug wrote: > > You think some sort of secure telnet session would do it better than > straight openssl? How would that even work and would I need to install > anything (telnet and openssl are things I can expect to find within > metres of me wherever I am)? > > It's all very well and good that pop3 works but I'm not going to > subject anybody to that. > > EdD > > On Dec 15, 2:56 pm, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]> wrote: > > I assume you are using Telnet over stunnel or the like and attempting to > > talk IMAP. > > > > Using OpenSSL I see the same symptom as you, can login but no response to > > commands. Weird! > > $ openssl s_client -connect imap.gmail.com:993 > > . > > . > > . > > * OK Gimap ready for requests from xx.xx.xx.xx e4if4030674wiv.185 > > 01 login [email protected] ********** > > * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN > > X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE > > 01 OK [email protected] Marko Vukovic authenticated (Success) > > 02 logout > > > > ^C > > $ > > > > POP3 works fine though... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:00 AM, shadebug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I spend my days setting people's email clients up and it occurred to > > > me, on a whim, that it might be useful if I could telnet into their > > > servers and check to see what's actually there when something's up > > > (for instance, I recently set up a customer's account, not gmail, and > > > of her hundreds of mailboxes the only one it retrieved was a single > > > subsubsubfolder despite her webmail client showing me all sorts of > > > wonderful stuff). I soon discovered that this is actually pretty easy > > > and was quickly able to log into and peruse email using telnet for my > > > personal domain and ssl for yahoo's secure servers. When I tried it on > > > gmail, however, it was happy to login (that is to say authenticate, > > > not just open the connection) and then nothing else worked. Even the > > > logout command did nothing. > > > > > So the question here is, why? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Gmail-Users" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<javascript:> > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > Marko > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
