Problem with Courier-Imap

[Anonymous]

HI all,

I have followed the instructions exactly, a few times now, but am still having a problem with Courier-Imap.

I'm on a fedora core 2 system.
My problem is that the telnet test to post 143 fails after installing Courier-Imap
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[root@xxx.com tempfiles]# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.
a login postmaster@xxx.com xxxPasswordxxx
a NO Login failed.
Connection closed by foreign host.
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Thats the telnet test and result. I really cannot see what this problem is, i have tried numerous times now, and still have the same result. Of course, Squirrelmail also doesnt work because of the Imap problem.

My sever maillog shows the following, which i hope can be of help to someone ;)

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Oct 11 11:58:12 xxx authdaemond.mysql: failed to connect to mysql server (server=localhost., userid=vpopmail_user)
Oct 11 11:58:17 xxx imapd: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
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I really hope someone can help/advise on this one. Please !

Thanks
Simon

[DBA_Frog]

Oct 11 11:58:17 xxx imapd: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]

looks like you have the ever popular xinetd blocking imap issue;

try this...

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/imap start
/ect/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start


and try again...

If that doesn't help, let us know

[Anonymous]

Hi there,
Many thanks for the answer, but after running your commands, then retrying the telnet 143 login, the error is still exactly the same as in my first post.
Sadly nothing has changed :(

Hope you have more idea's, as i am almost bald now with days of hair pulling over this issue :)

Thanks again
Simon