Re: IMAP Question (newbie)

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 07/25/05 

Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:14:16 -0000

ac wrote:
>============
> and have Set:
> Service is IMAP, Status is On, type is stream, protocol is tcp, flags is
> nowait, user is user1.users, Server is /usr/sbin/imapd
> (and set IMAPS similarly also).
>============

Can you telnet to the IMAP server? Best to do all localy.

> Unfortunately I cannot see anywhere obvious in yast to configure the
> IMAP account or service any further such as account name or password,
> perhaps this is a cl function (?)

Login and pasword are the login and password of the user.

> At the client end - kmail, and configure kmail the IMAP account setup
> window includes:
>
>=====================
> Name: [is this the server account name or the friendly name of the user
> or what?]
> Login: [user1]
> Password: [normal password used by user1 ]
> Host: [not sure here - pc name in network is 'name1-pc' - how to check
> what is required?]
> Port: 143
> Prefix to folders: [blank]
>
> (with checkboxes including: )
> store IMAP password in configuration file [blank]
>=====================
>
> This Kmail obviously expects a user account login name and suitable
> password to be used, but when creating and setting up the IMAP server
> (yast) I cannot see how or where this might be.

You have a user with a password? That's it.

> I have a number of books including the suse 9.1 manuals (and online
> manuals of course), and others, but cannot see any information about
> either a generic IMAP server setup or suse related detail. And I have
> used google too, but help seem sto be specific to certain software
> (other than that offered via yast...... IMAP (?) )

Have you looked at my page? There is nothing extra to do for IMAP to be
working. Just launch it and it runs.

> To start with I am using the same single pc for the IMAP server and the
> kmail client, but the future stage will be another PC on the lan for the
> client.

telnet localhost 143

Does that give you anything? 

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