Subject: Problem installing IMAP on Solaris 2.4

From: [email-masked] (Jie Chen)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 20:37:14 GMT

Hi,
        I tried to install IMAP from U. of Washington. The package
compiled fine and I put "imapd", "ipop2d", and "ipop3d" into the
/usr/sbin/ directory. The POP3 still works fine, but I cannot
get IMAP to work.
        I added the entry to /etc/services as the following:
pop             109/tcp                         # Post Office
pop3            110/tcp         postoffice      # Post Office
imap            143/tcp
 
        And the /etc/inetd.conf has the following lines:
pop     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/ipop2d        ipop2d
pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/ipop3d        ipop3d
imapd   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/imapd         imapd
 
        If I telnet to port 110 (pop3d), it works as expected:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
corn:537 ~%telnet corn 110
Trying 206.1.210.194 ...
Connected to corn.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK corn POP3 3.3(33) w/IMAP client (Report problems in this server to 
[email-masked]) at Fri, 10 May 1996 15:17:59 -0500 (CDT)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
        But if I telnet to port 143(imapd), it didn't work
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corn:539 ~%telnet corn 143
Trying 206.1.210.194 ...
telnet: connect: Connection refused
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 11:56:46 +0800 (GMT)

>         If I telnet to port 110 (pop3d), it works as expected:

	After making your additions did you do a "ps" to find inetd and
then send it a "kill -HUP"?

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 20:07:42 -0700

The problem is that you have "imapd" as the first word in the imap line of
/etc/inetd.conf.  It should be "imap", matching the service name.

>         If I telnet to port 110 (pop3d), it works as expected:

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