[bincimap] setup questions

[Dan Mills]

Hi,

First of all, are there any archives of this mailing list? I haven't found any, but I don't want to be 'that guy' who asks the same question that's been answered a gazillion times before :)

Specially since I'm not really sure what to ask. Things are, er, not working. Here's what I have so far:

I followed the instructions on the binc imap web page (installed the rpm packages, set up xinetd, etc). No problems. Then I made .key and .crt files, using the makefile that came with my redhat install in /usr/share/ssl/certs to do so, and I concatenated those two to make a .pem file. I don't really know if these are right, but they look ok to me. I looked at /opt/bincimap/etc/bincimap.conf and set it to allow cleartext passwords (for now), and told it where my .pem/.crt files are.

As it is, I can telnet to port 143 and I get the imap server just fine. Trying to log in ("a001 login user passwd") tells me clear text passwords are not allowed, and that's that. Not sure why it's doing that, since I allowed it in the conf file.

I can also telnet to port 993, and after typing garbage, I get an error from the ssl library. Looks good. However, if I try it from a mail client (OS X's Mail.app or Ximian Evolution), it doesn't work. Running stunnel and then telnetting to the stunnel'd port disconnects me immediately (not "connection refused"--it *does* connect, but immediately closes the connection).

Any ideas on what could be going wrong here?

Thanks in advance,
-Dan