Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:39:22 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <rsm@acm.org> To: Mutschlechner Andreas <andi@abaid.com>, "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP problem Message-ID: <19980912183922.56339@goatsucker.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980911222902.562B-100000@fap.sam.com>; from Mutschlechner Andreas on Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 10:29:25PM %2B0200 References: <03af01bddd91$b848d820$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980911222902.562B-100000@fap.sam.com>
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On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 10:29:25PM +0200, Mutschlechner Andreas wrote: > > > 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 > What are you using to get the mail? I've used fetchmail (4.3.8) and Netscape (4.something) with the same server; both worked pretty well. If you're using fetchmail make sure you haven't hard-wired POP into your .fetchmailrc -- either specify IMAP or let fetchmail figure it out. HTH, Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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