Connection pb of a Mac OSX box on a Linux IMAP server

Hello,

I have an imap server on a old e-smith (kernel 2.2.26-7.0.3) I know it's
very old, but it works.

the imap package is : e-smith-wu-imap-1.4.0

I use it for six years with 5 linux boxes on my lan with kmail, thunderbird,
sylpheed, evolution, without any problem.

I have now an iMac, and trying to connect to the imap serveur with de Apple
Mail app nothing appends and on the server logs I found (192.168.135.71 is
the Mac) :

Mar 28 20:56:42 averroes imapd[4814]: imap service init from 192.168.135.71
Mar 28 20:56:42 averroes imapd[4814]: Command stream end of file, while
reading line user=??? host=pc-00071 [192.168.135.71]

I dont understand why it can't read the user name from the Mac. Is it a
charset pb ?

The server is ISO-8859-1, but with a Linux utf-8 client I have :

Mar 28 19:35:11 averroes imapd[4370]: imap service init from 192.168.135.68
Mar 28 19:35:11 averroes imapd[4370]: Authenticated user=marc
host=avicenne.yakati.net [192.168.135.68]

If somebody can indicate me where to investigate (charset problem, wu imap
config pb... or other) it would be helpfull.

(sorry for my so poor english...)

Marc

The problem has nothing to do with charsets. The message from UW (not
"WU") imapd indicates that the client (in your case, Mail.app)
disconnected without ever logging in.

Since Mail.app failed to report why it choose not to log in (one of many
deficiencies in that program), your best bet is to see if you can get a
debug log from it and then we can analyze it. There is a way to do so
(I've seen such logs), but I don't know how to do it. At least it can do
so; the Mail application on the iToy does not.

If I have to guess, perhaps Mail.app is not configured to use SSL.
Modern versions of UW imapd require SSL or TLS before accepting any
authentication that uses plaintext passwords. So, try setting whatever
option there is to use SSL.

I have no idea what version of UW imapd "1.4.0" might be. That is not a
version number that I ever assigned. Try the command
telnet imapserver 143
(substitute the host name of your IMAP server for "imapserver") and report
the resulting output. To exit, just type
x logout
plus the return key.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

Mark Crispin wrote:

> The problem has nothing to do with charsets. The message from UW (not
> "WU") imapd indicates that the client (in your case, Mail.app)
> disconnected without ever logging in.

Sorry maybe I made a confusion with the name of another soft, wu-ftpd


> If I have to guess, perhaps Mail.app is not configured to use SSL.
> Modern versions of UW imapd require SSL or TLS before accepting any
> authentication that uses plaintext passwords. So, try setting whatever
> option there is to use SSL.
>
> I have no idea what version of UW imapd "1.4.0" might be. That is not a
> version number that I ever assigned. Try the command
> telnet imapserver 143
> (substitute the host name of your IMAP server for "imapserver") and report
> the resulting output. To exit, just type
> x logout
> plus the return key.

Thank you so much ! It was a SSL problem, but in fact I configured with SSL
and my server needs NO SSL... maybe it's a too old version ?

The result of the telnet connexion is :

marc@avicenne:~$ telnet averroes 143
Trying 192.168.135.1...
Connected to averroes.yakati.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK averroes.yakati.net IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready
x logout
* BYE averroes.yakati.net IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection
x OK LOGOUT completed
Connection closed by foreign host.

I suppose se real version il v12.264 ?

But now it works ! Thanks a lot.

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Alarch posted:
> * OK averroes.yakati.net IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready

That is a truly ancient version -- nearly 10 years old -- and should be
upgraded. The current version is always available on:

ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

Mark Crispin wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Alarch posted:
>> * OK averroes.yakati.net IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready
>
> That is a truly ancient version -- nearly 10 years old -- and should be
> upgraded. The current version is always available on:
>
> ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z
>
> -- Mark --

It is a truly ancient server, I think I should upgrade the entire OS, with a
2.6 kernel and iptables and so on !

Thank you for your answers. I had not noticed who answered me, not all the
computing "Gurus" have your kindness nor your simplicity. And thank you for
IMAP, a so useful protocol.

> It is a truly ancient server, I think I should upgrade the entire OS, with
> a
> 2.6 kernel and iptables and so on !

uw-imap can run on nearly anything. prepare yourself for a lot of headaches
if you think doing an OS upgrade will be 'simple'. You'd likely be better
off doing a fresh install instead.

> Thank you for your answers. I had not noticed who answered me, not all the
> computing "Gurus" have your kindness nor your simplicity.

Nice, isn't it?

Bill Kearney wrote:


> uw-imap can run on nearly anything. prepare yourself for a lot of
> headaches
> if you think doing an OS upgrade will be 'simple'. You'd likely be better
> off doing a fresh install instead.

Yes, in fact I wanted to change my computer (it's a PIII 800 Mhz) and
install a new Linux distro (Debian), and make a transfer of my data (on
their own HD) on a new one, with ext3 insteed of ext2.

It would be too difficult upgrade a RedHat like from 2.2 kernel to 2.6
kernel !

Yes this mail list il really nice !