Subject: Getting imapd to work

From: "Neil J Long, Dept of Materials" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 18:12:58 +0000

HI
I'm sorry to be so thick but I cannot get imapd to run on demand.
I have compiled pine on both SGI Indigo's and HP 730's (without a hitch as is
typical of the quality of pine) and followed the instructions for including
imap in /etc/services and in inetd.conf. I -HUP'd inetd and so forth.
When I set the .pinerc to use a remote inbox as 
{machinename}inbox or {}/usr/mail or {}/usr/mail/long I always get the same
message

Cannot connect to machinename,143 : Connection refused.

I also tried making a symbolic link between impad and /etc/rimapd but that
didn't make any difference.
Could someone enlighten me. Are there any other file permissions needed?
I also tried changing the services entry to imap2.
Thanks
Neil
services entry is
imap	143/tcp		
inetd.conf entry is
imap	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/etc/imapd	imapd

Above taken from technical Notes July 13 1992 Pine 3.05

Sorry if this is a FAQ!!

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 11:37:50 -0800 (PST)

It looks to me as if you did the right thing.  The error message you got seems
to indicate that your system is not listening for the IMAP service, which is
indicative of an improper installation somehow.

I assume you have checked the obvious:
 1) is imapd installed on /usr/etc/imapd (the pathname you gave in the
    inetd.conf file), and is it executable?
 2) does the format of your inetd.conf entry correspond to that of other
    entries in the file (there are two or three variants of this file's
    format)?

Regards,

-- Mark --