imap configuration

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Sean V. Kelley wrote:

> What files need to be modified to get imap up and
> going?  

/sbin/chkconfig imap on
/sbin/service xinetd restart

> It is already installed and I have added it
> to the list of enabled services.  I've made sure
> imap in /etc/xinetd.d/imap is not disabled.  

The above commands will do what you've already verivied so they are 
optional, but handy nevertheless

> I have
> also made sure that xinet is enabled and launched
> at boot time.  I have even done an nmap -sS localhost
> and netstat -a and can clearly see that imap and imaps
> ports are open and set to LISTEN.  But I can not see any
> imapd running when I grep for it amongst the various
> processes running.  

Err.. you wouldn't see an imapd running unless there were imap users 
connected.  imapd is run by xinetd only when xinetd gets a connection on 
the imap ports (143, or 993 for imaps).  Betcha you ran nmap from the same 
machine that you;re trying to access, right?

> Nor can I actually connect to the
> server using the imap port, I always get connection 
> refused.  

xinetd is tcp_wrappers aware, so assuming you've done the smart thing and 
put an line reading "ALL : ALL" in /etc/hosts.deny you'll need to edit 
/etc/hosts.allow and add a line like "imapd : ALL".  Additionally, you'd 
want to check your firewall rules to make sure that port 143/tcp is open 
to your clients.

> I am running postfix as my MTA using maildir
> format for mail storage.  Postfix runs fine.  

Good for Postfix.  Are you sure that the imapd you're running knows how to
read maildir format mailboxes?  IIRC, the default uw-imapd comes compiled
to read mailbox format mailboxes, you'll probably need to recompile.

> I have
> a clean install of YDL 3.0.  What gives?  Am I missing
> something?  

Er.. one obvious question: Have you looked in /var/log/maillog and 
/var/log/messages to see if there are any error messages?  These palces 
would contain valubale information to your plight and would help us help 
you a bunch ;-)

-n
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