please help with configuring courier imap

Sun Aug 4 00:58:47 EDT 2002

Hi,

     I don't use courier, but I notice that you're still using the ssh 
plugin in your .fetchmailrc.  Replace the plugin line with the single 
keyword "ssl", without the quotes, of course.

I see that you're beating up on speakup.octothorp.org with IMAP over ssh.  
try the above mentioned configuration into speakup first.  I know that my 
IMAP over SSL configuration works, but I'm using UW IMAP, not Courier.

          HTH.
          Bill

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I've got courier imap 1.4.6, the stand-alone version.
> 
> I would like to provide imap over ssl, and have logins authenticated via the authpwd module.
> 
> I've read the docs backwords and forwords, but still can't get it to work successfully. I have edited imapd, imapd.cnf, and imapd-ssl in /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc to provide what I think are the correct values.
> 
> I run imapd-ssl.rc start, and it starts just fine.
> When I run fetchmail in vurbose mode, I get the following.
> 
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (protocol auto) at Sat Aug  3 22:37:44 2002: poll started
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (protocol IMAP) at Sat Aug  3 22:37:44 2002: poll started
> fetchmail: running ssh romualt@%h /usr/sbin/imapd (host linserver.romuald.net.eu.org service 143)
> romualt at linserver.romuald.net.eu.org's password:
> fetchmail: IMAP< * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE IDLE MAILBOX-REFERRALS SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] [0.0.0.0] IMAP4rev1 2000.287 at Sat, 3 Aug 2002 22:35:29 -0500 (CDT)
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
> fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE IDLE MAILBOX-REFERRALS SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 SELECT "INBOX"
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 0 EXISTS
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 0 RECENT
> fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1] UID validity status
> fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
> fetchmail: IMAP< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
> fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
> fetchmail: No mail for romualt at linserver.romuald.net.eu.org
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 LOGOUT
> fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE linserver.romuald.net.eu.org IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK LOGOUT completed
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (protocol IMAP) at Sat Aug  3 22:37:53 2002: poll completed
> fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (protocol auto) at Sat Aug  3 22:37:53 2002: poll completed
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 1
> 
> Everything looks fine, right? No, it doesn't since there actually is mail waiting for romualt (I'm positive of that).
> 
> When I do the same with outlook distress,
> 1. I select the account. 
> 2. It tells me that it doesn't have the folders for that account, and do I want to download them.
> 3. I say yes, and give it my password.
> 4. It tells me that my ssl certificate is not in the official root certificates database, and asks me if I still want to connect. I answer yes.
> 5. It gives me an ok dialogue saying that the server unexpectedly terminated the connection.
> 
> I get the following in the server's /var/log/messages file.
> 
> Aug  3 22:35:29 linserver sshd[848]: Accepted password for romualt from 192.168.0.2 port 1028 ssh2
> Aug  3 22:35:29 linserver imapd[849]: Preauthenticated user=romualt host=[34.163.4.8]
> Aug  3 22:35:29 linserver imapd[849]: Logout user=romualt host=[34.163.4.8]
> 
> I'm obviously close, but not home. 
> 
> Can someone who is using courier imap successfully please advise?
> If you need to see any of my config files, output from the authinfo program, or anything else, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Greg
> 
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