From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 12:34:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24232 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.dnet.it (ns.dnet.it [194.242.192.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24227 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andi@abaid.com) Received: from fap.sam.com (ppp55-mr.dnet.it [194.242.203.55]) by ns.dnet.it (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA29985; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:34:00 GMT Received: from localhost (andi@localhost) by fap.sam.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA00578; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:29:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andi@abaid.com) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:29:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Mutschlechner Andreas X-Sender: andi@fap.sam.com To: "Alain G. Fabry" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP problem In-Reply-To: <03af01bddd91$b848d820$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> 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 Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > I have installed the imap-uw-4.2. > Whenever I try to get my mail using IMAP, I don't get any response. POP3 > works fine. > I tried to telnet to port 143 and the server says it's ready. > Whenever I try to login with > login user password .... it returns me with: login BAD Command > unrecognized/login please: username > What could possibly be causing my IMAP server to be ready but not respond to > any commands. > Thanks, > > Alain > > >From rfc2060 2.2.1. Client Protocol Sender and Server Protocol Receiver The client command begins an operation. Each client command is prefixed with an identifier (typically a short alphanumeric string, e.g. A0001, A0002, etc.) called a "tag". A different tag is generated by the client for each command. So you must use aaa login user password greetings andi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message