Thanks very much! I spent some time viewing /var/log/syslog, and that was helpful.
I can't find anything else that is starting imapd (in rc.d, or elsewhere), yet because of the ready line when I telnet to port 143, I believe it is starting. In /var/log/syslog I found that my problem is usually "Missing command before authentication host[192.168.0.8]". I tried looking for this on Google, and the indication is that I've got a bad client or am being attacked. Since I'm on a LAN behind a NAT, I don't think I'm being attacked (I might be, but I doubt it -- GRC or whoever always says all my ports are "stealthed"). So, I suspect that I don't know how to initiate a dialog with imap via telnet -- I suspect that this command: "A001 user <username> <password>", which I got from Linux Red Hat 6 Unleashed, is not valid. Can somebody tell me how to initiate a dialog with imap via telnet? Randy Kramer Raffaele Belardi wrote: > this seems to be the problem to me. I don't have experience with imap, > but had a similar problem with proftp. proftp can run as standalone _or_ > as (x)inetd service, but not both! If you start proftpd from the command > line and you also have disable=no in the corresponding xinet.d/ > configuration file, it will not work. So be sure that you are not > starting imap from the rc.d, if you enable it in xinet.d > > good luck. >
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