From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 12 11:21:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28225 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from valis.goatsucker.org (dialup-port1.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28210 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsm@acm.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by valis.goatsucker.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA03335; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:39:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Message-ID: <19980912183922.56339@goatsucker.org> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:39:22 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Mutschlechner Andreas , "Alain G. Fabry" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP problem References: <03af01bddd91$b848d820$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Mutschlechner Andreas on Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 10:29:25PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 | 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