List, good afternoon,
Dovecot and mail clients work fine. Several recent postings mention
trying telnet to check this or that and, since I was considering using
a spreadsheet plug-in to analyse some mail statistics by directly
connecting to the server, I thought I'd try to test what the command
sequence was that I might be able to use, and what message data was
available (headers etc).
We use only SSL-protected ports. Is it possible to manually login to
dovecot when dovecot uses SSL-protected imap ports? I've tried telnet
and the
telnet localhost 993
login user pass
resulted in connection closure, as I (think I) would expect because
telnet doesn't use SSL (does it?). I checked
man telnet
and it described authentication options but when I tried
telnet localhost 993
auth enable ?
to check what auth protocols it allows, the connection closed.
I tried SSH but it just 'hung' - presumably SSH expects an SSH server
at the other end, not dovecot.
Is it possible to manually login to a dovecot SSL imap port?
regards, Ron
