imap configuration

[Sean V. Kelley]

Thank you very much for your help!  As I mentioned
in my other email, the default firewall was blocking.
You were right about no Maildir support in the default
imap installed with YDL 3.0.
  

Regards,

Sean Kelley
* nathan r. hruby <nhruby@uga.edu> [2003-09-06 12:44]:
| 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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| nathan hruby <nhruby@uga.edu>
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