Might sound silly, but have you tried sending a mail first to that
address you are trying to access? For one reason or another, some imap
mail boxes are not created till a mail is sent to them first.
Oh by the way, are you using virtualdomains and users or not?
If you are, watch out for the end / when creating the users mail
directory. I have ever spent a night awake because of that.
> > ++ this is what i got from the squirrelmail website, have you
tried this:
>
> Yes, I have taken a look at that. Infact when I telnet 143, I do get
a
> response which to me confirms that imap is actually running (unless
> otherwise..)
>
> >>
> >> 1. Using squirrelmail, I am able to log into my e-mail account
but
> >> instead
> >> of viewing the contents of my inbox, I get the error, "Connection
> >> dropped
> >> by imap-server."
> >
> > ++ http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/MailServerIMAPProblem
> >
> >>
> >> 2. I can't pop mail using M$ Outlook due to an invalid username
or
> >> password. I am very certain about these details coz I am able to
use
> >> the same for logging into the e-mail account via squirrelmail.
> >
> > ++ i noticed some time back when i installed courier-imap on a BSD
box
> > that it
> > is sensitive to whitespace's especially when you are using it with
the
> > mysql
> > module( what i was using then not sure about the rest), the
authmysqlrc
> > file
> > will not complain that it has white space's but simply wont
authenticate
> > the
> > user, you can up the logging level and get more verbose output in
your
> > logs.
> >
>
> I did ensure that I had no white spaces at all in the authmysqlrc
file.
>
> >>
> >> Note: I am running FreeBSD 4.x with the courier version packages
as
> >> follows;
> >>
> >> courier-authlib-0.55_1
> >> courier-imap-4.0.2
> >
> > ++ At times you simply cant trust ports, you just have to try and
build it
> > from source, have you tried that ??
> >
>
> I do not have courier-imap as one of the available packages (rather
> interesting, I must say) from the CD/DVD option hence I can't build
it
> from source.
>
> Rgds,
> Juki.
>
>
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