local imap server using fetchmail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 29.08.2005 schrieb Lovell Mcilwain um 4:59:

> the the IMAP server but I can't seem to connect to it with my client.  When I connect to it via 
> telnet I get the following response:
> 
> [lmcilwain at localhost ~]$ telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-6.fc4 server ready
> 
> But when I try to connect to localhost via my mail client it tells me that its a failed connection 
> after specifying my password.
> 
> Whats so weird is that I didn't specify a password to telnet to it via the command prompt.  Any 
> ideas of what I maybe doing wrong?

What you paste above does not show a successful IMAP login. I think you
got that wrong. It only shows the greeting message by Cyrus-IMAPd.
Running a manual IMAP connection through telnet following would have to
follow to proceed with authentication:

01 login <user> <password>

Then the IMAP server would tell you whether it accepts you by the given
auth data or not.

Alexander


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