[courier-users] Courier-imap doesn't work after installation

[Xie Jinghua]

Hi there,

 

I'm a freshman in courier. I just intalled a courier-imap server on Suse 9.3 following the guide of "PostfixCourierIMAP MySQL Virt. hosts + optionals ClamAV & SpamAssassin" http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=61.

 

I configured authlib with --with-authmysql.

For imap, I used the default ./configure with no options.

 

Now I have problem accessing the imap server.

 

- I setup a Outlook Express client. But when I tried to access imap I got the following error

 

Your 'Inbox' folder was not polled for its unread count. Could not get the unread counts for 'Inbox' on '172.16.210.105' Account: '172.16.210.105 ', Server: '172.16.210.105', Protocol: IMAP, Server Response: 'IDLE completed', Port: 143, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCCD2

 

Header download for the 'Inbox' folder did not complete. Could not select 'Inbox' on the IMAP server. You might try refreshing your folder list to synchronize with the IMAP server. Account: ' 172.16.210.105', Server: '172.16.210.105', Protocol: IMAP, Server Response: 'Unable to open this mailbox.', Port: 143, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCCD2

 

- When I look into /var/log/mail, it only tells me that there is a connection but no error:

 

May  5 21:20:58 server1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:172.16.10.143]
May  5 21:20:58 server1 imapd: LOGIN, user=testa, ip=[::ffff:172.16.10.143 ], protocol=IMAP
May  5 21:20:59 server1 imapd: DISCONNECTED, user=testa, ip=[::ffff:172.16.10.143], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=49, sent=125, time=1
May  5 21:21:20 server1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff: 172.16.10.143]
May  5 21:21:20 server1 imapd: LOGIN, user=testa, ip=[::ffff:172.16.10.143], protocol=IMAP

.....................
 

- Tried authtest. Authlib is working

server1:/var/spool/postfix/virtual/foo.com # authtest testa
Authentication succeeded.

     Authenticated: testa  (uid 5003, gid 5000)
    Home Directory: /var/spool/postfix/virtual
           Maildir: foo.com/testa/
             Quota: (none)
Encrypted Password: FOtqGEuYpydTo
Cleartext Password: abc
           Options: (none)

- all services are started

server1:/var/spool/postfix/virtual/foo.com # netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 *:mysql                 *:*                     LISTEN      9416/mysqld
tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                     LISTEN      4812/portmap
tcp        0      0 *:ftp                   *:*                     LISTEN      7675/xinetd
tcp        0      0 *:ipp                   *:*                     LISTEN      4861/cupsd
tcp        0      0 localhost:smtp          *:*                     LISTEN      14483/master
tcp        0      0 server1.examp:aairnet-1 server1.example.c:mysql ESTABLISHED 13068/authdaemond
tcp        0      0 server1.example.c:mysql server1.examp:aairnet-1 ESTABLISHED 9416/mysqld
tcp        0      0 *:imap                  *:*                     LISTEN      12749/couriertcpd
tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     LISTEN      5459/sshd
tcp        0      0 localhost:smtp          *:*                     LISTEN      14483/master

I've been puzzled by the installation of courier. First I tried to install courier on a Suse 8 with MySQL 3-x-x and it turns out that this version of MySQL is not support by courier. Then I changed to Suse 9.3. But the postfx of Suse9.3 is not compiled with mysql support. I had to find a postfix rpm with mysql support. Now the system is up and new problem comes out. I'm out of idea. Could anybody be able to give a hand? Great thanks!!

Regards

Barry Xie