[imp] muliple imap server connections

[Kelly Nicklin]

Thank you very much!! I checked and imapd was running as imap, once I changed it to root, it started working fine.  Note to other rookies, if you're setting up IMAP, be sure you run it as root.
Kelly Nicklin

Quoting "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@horde.org>:

> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Kelly Nicklin
> <knicklin@ops.org> wrote:
> 
> > on the non-working server, I get this:
> > * PREAUTH server.name IMAP4rev1 2000.281 at
> Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:16:17
> > -0600 (CST)
> 
> Hmmm.... from RFC 2060:
> 
> 7.1.4.  PREAUTH Response
> 
>       The PREAUTH response is always untagged,
> and is one of three
>       possible greetings at connection startup. 
> It indicates that the
>       connection has already been authenticated
> by external means and
>       thus no LOGIN command is needed.
> 
> So it looks like somehow imapd already thinks it
> knows who's calling.  I
> have no idea what configuration difference would
> make it use external
> authentication information... I've never done
> that.
> 
> When you connect and get PREAUTH, leave the
> connection open and do a long
> ps on the server to see who owns the running
> process... maybe it's not
> running as root?  (Or check the imap line in
> your /etc/inetd.conf file.)
> 
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Kelly Nicklin
Web Development and Internet Support
Omaha Public Schools
knicklin@ops.org
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