Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:58:23 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: BSD Admin <freebsd@noc.ntelos.net> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IMAP Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104111657500.509-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104111032250.35196-100000@noc.ntelos.net>
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, BSD Admin wrote: > Helly Jan and All, > Thank you very much for the reply. > The info helped get my imap server up, but I now have a new problem. > > > Second: the thing that's listening on the imap port is inetd; this will > > palm off an incoming connection to your imapd when properly configured > > (see the output of sockstat). > > Thanks, I now see that inetd just pushes the socket request to whatever > inetd.conf tells it. I just assumed that /libexec/imapd was a sym link or > something to whatever started imapd. I should have looked, but never > really understood that inetd handled requests on the fly. I always thought > it started a daemon in the background and that was that. > > Anyway, my new problem is that when I try to check mail via imap, > mozilla simply tells me 'login failed'. I know I am typing the correct > account password. Is there an imap configuration file I need to configure > to tell it to use a particular authentication method or something? > > Thanks for any info! Which IMAP server are you using? The answer, as you might expect, depends. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk If it's broken really badly - don't fix it either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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