[imp] Unexpected response from server to LOGIN command.

Anant Athavale asa at isac.gov.in
Mon May 29 20:54:30 PDT 2006


Another observation:

This problem happens when the username has a space before the username.

-Anant.


Quoting Anant Athavale <asa at isac.gov.in>:

> Dear List:
>
> I upgraded the software from HORDE 3.0 to HORDE 3.1 and correspondigly
> IMP,Kronolith, Turba etc to their latest stable versions.
>
> For some users, I get Unexpected response from server to LOGIN
> command.  The users were using IE at that moment.  When, I tried for
> the same user from firefox, there was no problem.  In this case, only
> side bar is seen and I get the error mentioned in the centre of the
> screen.
>
> In this list only, similar problem was related, but it was concluded
> something like broken IMAP server.  But, if it is a broken IMAP it
> should have happened to all users.
>
> Following is the output of IMP test page after login as general user:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PHP Mail Server Support Test
> Attempting to automatically determine the correct connection
> parameters for your server:
>
>     * Trying protocol imap, Port 143:
>
>           SUCCESS - INBOX has 14 messages (4 new 0 recent)
>
>     * Trying protocol imap/notls, Port 143:
>
>           SUCCESS - INBOX has 14 messages (4 new 0 recent)
>
>     * Trying protocol imap/ssl, Port 993:
>
>           ERROR - The server returned the following error message:
>
> Can't connect to isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in,993: Connection refused
>
>     * Trying protocol imap/ssl/novalidate-cert, Port 993:
>
>           ERROR - The server returned the following error message:
>
> Can't connect to isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in,993: Connection refused
>
>     * Trying protocol imap/tls/novalidate-cert, Port 143:
>
>           ERROR - The server returned the following error message:
>
> Unable to negotiate TLS with this server
>
> The following configurations were successful and may be used in your
> imp/config/servers.php file:
>
>     Configuration 1
>
> 'server' => 'localhost'
> 'protocol' => 'imap'
> 'port' => '143'
>
>     Configuration 2
>
> 'server' => 'localhost'
> 'protocol' => 'imap/notls'
> 'port' => '143'
>
> The following IMAP server information was discovered from the remote server:
>
>     Namespace Information
>
>         NAMESPACE: "INBOX." DELIMITER: . TYPE: personal NAMESPACE:
> "user." DELIMITER: . TYPE: others NAMESPACE: "" DELIMITER: . TYPE:
> shared
>
>     IMAP CHILDREN support:
>
>         SUPPORTED
>
>     IMAP Charset Search Support:
>
>         Server supports searching with the UTF-8 character set.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I am using Cyrus-imap available with RHEL-4 update 3.
>
>
> So, some users are not able to access using IE.  I would like it to
> work on IE also.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Anant.
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Regards,

Anant.


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