Re: IMAPS, Fetchmail, Procmail and RH9

[Steeve McCauley <steeve oneguycoding com>]

On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 04:15, Roger Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:26:49PM -1000, Roger Harrington wrote:
> > > 
> > > 1. Fetchmail and Procmail have installed and work fine.
> > > I am in the process of trying to get IMAPS running.
> > > 2. Looking in redhat-config-services shows imaps in there and with a 
> > > tick in the box but the stop/start/restart buttons at the top are 
> > > greyed out.
> > > 3. I have tried service xinetd restart but to no avail.
> > > 4. I had previously hand-amended /etc/xinetd.d/imaps to make disable = no.
> > > 
> > > What do I do next?
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Roger
> > 
> > Well, I was assuming you had the imap RPM installed.  I'm not so sure
> > now.  To find out:
> > 
> >   rpm -q imap
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> Hi Bob
> 
> The above command returns, "imap-2001a-18"

Is port 993 open on your firewall?

I usually test this sort of thing by trying to
telnet to the box on a specific port,

telnet imapbox 993

And if it connects I know the server is listening.

You should also make sure that the service is running,

$ netstat -at | grep imaps

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