Subject: special .-file for IMAPD?

From: Oliver Wrede <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:06:41 +0100

Hi.

I read all the guides I could find about pine, but I did not get any answer
to a specific problem. Anyway I fear that this is a total lamer question, but
I do not have any clue...

I want to use a remote inbox. I installed imapd on that remote server. When I
setup the {the.remotemachine.name}whateverbox entry I always get a

[Can't connect to the.remotemachine.name,143: Connection refused]

In the technical notes I found something about that you need a certain file
in your remote home directroy to allow access. But it was not written which
file and what its syntax should be:

"With this configuration, the IMAP server runs without pre-authentication.
Each new IMAP connection requires a correct username and password. IMAP can
also be run with pre-authentication based on the standard rsh mechanism. To
enable this, the user account on the IMAP server must contain a valid file
which grants access to the client machine."
(taken from http://www.washington.edu:1180/pine/tech-notes/installation.html#install-imapd)

I also set the username and the password euqal on both machines, but it did
not seem to help. If I did something wrong in the /etc/inetd.conf - how can I
check if the imapd is running well?  What else am I doing wrong? 

Oliver

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:28:07 -0800 (PST)

Oliver,
The connection refused message almost always means the imapd is not
installed correctly.

-teg

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From: Gerhard Heijenga <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 15:16:22 +0100 (MET)

Terry,
I have the same problem as Oliver. I have installed imapd from university 
of washington on an AIX. Locally it is allright. But when I connect from 
my remote Alpha-computer I get also "connection refused".

If I change the direction (connect from the Alpha to the Aix) there is no 
problem.

TIA
gerhard

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 08:03:14 -0800 (PST)

Gerhard,
My remote diagnosis is the same: if you get a connection refused on port
143, it almost always means that the imapd is not correctly installed.
You can try telnetting to port 143 of the server to verify this.  If the
imapd is working, you'll be able to interact with it via telnet (if you
know the protocol syntax), or at least be able to see that it's alive.

-teg