[Gllug] Weirdness with uw-imapd and Squirrelmail

David Pashley david at parguild.co.uk
Fri Apr 4 14:53:05 UTC 2003


On Apr 04, 2003 at 15:39, Richard Cohen praised the llamas by saying:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
> > The girlfriend likes a drag-n-drool interface to her email so I've had
> > her using Squirrelmail.  After moving things around a bit, I now have
> > the imap server on the same machine as Squirrelmail again.  This
> > _used_ to work but doesn't any more.
> >
> > When I log in with the valid login and password, I get:
> >
> > Apr  4 15:20:38 chimay imapd[13058]: imap service init from 127.0.0.1
> > Apr  4 15:20:41 chimay imapd[13058]: Command stream end of file, while
> > reading line user=holly host=chimay.rumble.net [127.0.0.1]
> >
> > And Squirrelmail says "invalid username or password".
> >
> > Are there any straightforward tools to test that imapd is working so I
> > can at least isolate the problem?
> 
> telnet to port 143...
> 

david root% telnet localhost imap2
T: Trying 127.0.0.1...
T: Connected to localhost.
T: Escape character is '^]'.
S: * OK dovecot ready.
C: A1 LOGIN david yeahright
S: A1 OK Logged in.
C: A2 LOGOUT
S: * BYE Logging out
S: A2 OK Logout completed.
T: Connection closed by foreign host.

T = telnet
S = Server
C = Client

> Or there are a few tools in the old imap-utils package, now part of the main
> imapd distribution, I think...
> 
> Cheers
> Richard
> 

-- 
David Pashley
david at davidpashley.com
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