[imp] Imp login fails: "Error connecting to mail server."

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Louis Erickson <lerickson at rdwarf.net>:

> On Oct 28, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Louis Erickson <lerickson at rdwarf.net>:
>>
>>> I am confident this IMAP server works - it's a current Dovecot  
>>> server, and is being used by mail clients, and by Horde for  
>>> authentication.
>>
>> You've checked the IMAP logs to see what the IMAP server is returning?
>
> Thank you for your reply.  I appreciate any help, as I'm pretty stumped.
>
> Yes, I did.  The imap server isn't reporting a connection being  
> made.  Nor does netstat, but it goes by pretty quickly.  I guess I  
> could try getting iptables to log it.
>
> I also tried getting the IMAP server listening on 127.0.0.1 to see  
> if the default configuration would work.  Same error.
>
> I'm suspicious because the logging is not generating a log file.  I  
> wonder if it's even getting far enough to try.

Run the test.php script in imp.

And you should NOT be using IMAP authentication if using IMP.  It  
makes much more sense to use IMP application authentication instead.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]