From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 8:59:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B112E37B424 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:59:22 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14nN0h-0001Z2-00; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:58:23 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:58:23 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: BSD Admin Cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: IMAP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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