Re: imap problem

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

David,

It's probably worth verifying if IMAP is actually available or not on
that machine.

There are a couple of things you can try:


First, check that IMAP is actually available as a service on the machine
by telnetting directly to the IMAP port. Say your machine is called
"Mailsvr" then at a command prompt (anywhere on the network) try this:

telnet mailsvr 142     #(I'm assuming IMAP2 - check your port number
                          with 'grep imap /etc/services' )

If IMAP is running and available you should get something like this (I
changed my server names and IP's to protect innocent bystanders):



Zebra$ telnet mailsvr 143
Trying 10.10.10.84...
Connected to mailsvr.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2001 Double Precision, Inc.  See
COPYING for distribution information.



If you get that, then IMAP is working, and you have a different problem
- such as usernames / passwords not working etc.

If, on the other hand, you get this:

Zebra$ telnet mailsvr 143
Trying 10.10.10.84...
telnet: connect to address 10.10.10.84: Connection refused


...then your IMAP server is for some reason not communicating with the
outside. In _that_ case, it may be that IMAP is not permissioned to work
on that machine. The thing to look at is xinetd (/etc/xinetd.conf and
/etc/xinetd.d). There is an easy way to do this, however:

As root at a command prompt, try:

setup 

and on the menu it gives you, go to "system services" and then scroll
down to IMAP and make sure it's turned on. OK out of that. If it wasn't
turned on, and you just turned it on, you'll need to restart the xinetd
demon. 

Incidentally, you don't _have_ to use the menu - you could create the
appropriate entry in /etc/xinetd.d and restart xinetd.d, but I like the
menu because it doesn't forget to add links or edit appropriate files
etc etc etc...

Hope this all helps you...

Paul.



On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 07:43, David Limon Romero wrote:
> Hello everybody
> 
> Some days ago one of my servers was cracked, the intruder used a rootkit 
> and did some nasty things on my server, I preferred to reinstall the 
> server, it was a RH 7.2, and I upgraded to RH 7.3
> 
> When the system was under attack, or some moments later, my users noticed 
> that they couldn't enter anymore to read their email via webmail, I was 
> using IMP via imap, after reinstalling, imap isn't working yet, my 
> firewall rules are set for imap like this:
> ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 143 -p tcp -j accept
> for pop3:
> ipchains -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 110 -p tcp -j accept
> 
> pop3 is working fine before and after the reinstallation, but imap isn't,
> I tested using an email client: Evolution, using imap, and doesn't work 
> with imap, when I configure it for pop3 it works fine.
> 
> I don't know what is wrong, in my hosts.[allow|deny] I don't have nothing 
> reffering to that services, in my xinetd it is enabled.
> 
> I've upgraded my IMP thinking about it could be the problem... it doesn't.
> I'm using imap-2001a-10, I hope someone could help me please.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> David
> 
> 
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