Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-14 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Grant wrote: Can you please ssh to your box and run an nmap from your box (locally)? This will answer if smtp and imap are running and if they are being filtered by your isp. I'm not sure if someone mentioned before but imap might not be configured to listen

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:18:50PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dan Farrell squawked: I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent provider and rid myself of this nonsense. Don't assume DSL will be better. They often

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-12 Thread Grant
I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a firewall without that port open? My local network firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Grant
I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a firewall without that port open? My

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:02:01 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Grant
I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a firewall without that port open? My local network firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: I'm thinking I may not have explained this properly. My local ISP is Cox and I get the above list of filtered ports when port scanning my remote machine which is hosted halfway across the country. Cox can't prevent me from scanning the SMTP port on my remote machine right? My

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:14:59 -0500 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent provider and rid myself of this nonsense. Don't assume DSL will be better. They often block ports

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: Either is good; however you are going to need a different MX host for your mail I'm afraid. Since hosts can't connect to 25 they can't send mail directly to you. COX probably has provided an outgoing relay host, but didn't expect

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-11 Thread Grant
I'm thinking I may not have explained this properly. My local ISP is Cox and I get the above list of filtered ports when port scanning my remote machine which is hosted halfway across the country. Cox can't prevent me from scanning the SMTP port on my remote machine right? My host

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Grant
my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. But squirrelmail doesn't work if I stop imapd, so imapd must know where the mail is and squirrelmail must be using imapd right? furthermore

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Grant
I just don't have a good understanding of email. Can you give me an idea of how you'd set this up? At this point I only need mail for myself via claws-mail. I currently use postfix, courier-imap, and squirrelmail, and my mail is in ~/.maildir/ too. Well, I don't see why you changed

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Feb 2008, at 20:05, Grant wrote: I just don't have a good understanding of email. Can you give me an idea of how you'd set this up? At this point I only need mail for myself via claws-mail. I currently use postfix, courier-imap, and squirrelmail, and my mail is in ~/.maildir/ too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Grant
When you connect with Squirrelmail it is simply connecting to the IMAP server on hostname port 143 or 993. When it does so the IMAP server says hello, what's your username, password and Squirrelmail gives these. I don't see why you didn't point claws-mail at the same IMAP server - all

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Grant
I just don't have a good understanding of email. Can you give me an idea of how you'd set this up? At this point I only need mail for myself via claws-mail. I currently use postfix, courier-imap, and squirrelmail, and my mail is in ~/.maildir/ too. Well, I don't see why you changed

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:53:31 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. But squirrelmail doesn't work if I stop imapd, so imapd must know

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:45:14 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't send mail though, with or without authentication. I get this when port scanning with nmap: 25/tcp filtered smtp Does that mean my host is blocking the smtp port? It's possible. Or, perhaps you're behind a

[gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Grant
My server's current IMAP setup is only used with squirrelmail so it doesn't have to communicate over the internet. I'm trying to ditch squirrelmail for claws-mail and I'm having a little trouble making the transition. I'm using: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml I've taken a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:16:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My server's current IMAP setup is only used with squirrelmail so it doesn't have to communicate over the internet. I'm trying to ditch squirrelmail for claws-mail good choice. and I'm having a little trouble making the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Grant
My server's current IMAP setup is only used with squirrelmail so it doesn't have to communicate over the internet. I'm trying to ditch squirrelmail for claws-mail good choice. and I'm having a little trouble making the transition. I'm using:

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
my guess is that courier hasn't been told where to look for the mails. If you can see them from squirrelmail but not imap, that's probably the problem. furthermore you can diagnose connection problems seperately from missing mail problems. ( claws-mail has a convenient log feature for

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake IMAP - Real IMAP

2008-02-09 Thread Stroller
On 10 Feb 2008, at 01:23, Grant wrote: ... I just don't have a good understanding of email. Can you give me an idea of how you'd set this up? At this point I only need mail for myself via claws-mail. I currently use postfix, courier-imap, and squirrelmail, and my mail is in ~/.maildir/ too.