On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:28:27 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to this administrator, I do not have telnet access
> to this server.
Telnet can be used not only to interactively log into a server (what the
administrator was probably thinking about) but also to use any text
based protocol. All of POP, SMTP, IMAP are text based protocols that may
be tested using a telnet client.
Here is the example that Nerijus sent. I just prepended '> ' for the
lines you would type, and '< ' for the answers from the server. All you
need is a command prompt and the telnet client.
> $ telnet localhost 143
The '$' above is only the shell prompt. And of course, you must
replace localhost with the name of your IMAP server.
< Trying 127.0.0.1...
< Connected to localhost.
< Escape character is '^]'.
< * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE AUTH=CRAM-MD5 STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready.
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The server answers. Here it displays its capabilities without you
asking, but this may not be the case. Hence the next command ('1' is
the server prompt).
> 1 capability
< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE AUTH=CRAM-MD5 STARTTLS
< 1 OK CAPABILITY completed
As Vadim said, you must surround your password with double quotes if
it has any non-alphanumeric character.
> 2 login your_username your_password
< 2 OK LOGIN Ok.
> 3 logout
< * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down
< 3 OK LOGOUT completed
< Connection closed by foreign host.
If all of this works, this means that the server correctly understands
and accepts your username and password. Then the problem lies elsewhere
(I did not follow the thread).
> I haven't used telnet in 20 years and
> recall nothing about it. If you think it wd still be worth
> trying, I'll figure it out.
I guess it will allow to narrow the possible causes of the problem.
So yes it's worthwhile.
--
Xavier Nodet
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759.
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