local imap server using fetchmail

Lovell Mcilwain lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 13:52:59 UTC 2005



Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 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
> 
After reading some example commands on how to connect to the imap server I did use that command once 
I telneted to the server and found that I was not able to log in.  Upon talking with some others I 
found that my sasl service was not started.  Once I started that I was able to log into the imap 
server using the above command with no problem.  No I am at the point where Im ready to try and 
configure fetchmail to download the mail and drop in in ~/Maildir.  Once again I know nothing about 
fetchmail so I am looking fo really good documentation on how to do this while Im messing around 
with it.
> 




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