evolution with IMAP working?

Al

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Feb 3, 2002, 2:27:26 PM2/3/02

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Has anyone got evolution with IMAP working?

When I bring up evolution, I get an error dialog indicating:

Error while 'Opening store imap://user...@10.0.0.2/;check_all;use_ssl':

Server unexpectedly disconnected: Input/output error.

You will notice that I use the ip address...I don't have DNS enabled
yet...but that's another issue :(

Anyone know what exactly is going on here?

S C Rigler

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Feb 3, 2002, 5:10:15 PM2/3/02

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It works for me...I'm not trying to use ssl though.

-S

Raj

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Feb 3, 2002, 6:07:05 PM2/3/02

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Works for me too.. but I don't use ssl either. Are you sure your imap
server is running and is ssl-enabled? Try using it without ssl first and
if all goes well then switch to ssl and debug that.
cheers!

Al

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Feb 3, 2002, 6:30:39 PM2/3/02

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Tried that also...Can't get it to work either way....no problem sending out
email...but
retrieving all the email off the server is just not working.

Any ideas?

Raj

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Feb 3, 2002, 6:41:07 PM2/3/02

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On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 18:30:39 -0500, Al wrote:

> Tried that also...Can't get it to work either way....no problem sending
> out email...but
> retrieving all the email off the server is just not working.
>
> Any ideas?

are you running the server? If so, check if imapd is enabled in
/etc/xinetd.d/imapd.conf. Check also that you don't have the port (143
tcp) firewalled on the server.
there is no problem with evolution afaik..
cheers!

Al

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Feb 3, 2002, 9:23:38 PM2/3/02

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I'm not running the server. I'm just trying to connect to my work's mail
server. I know nothing about IMAP just that they told me that's what we are
running so we can keep the email on the servers.

I've not set up anything except play with evolution to pray for the email
gods to deliver.

Is there anything I need to run or set up?

Thanks

Raj

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Feb 3, 2002, 9:35:24 PM2/3/02

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On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:23:38 -0500, Al wrote:

> I'm not running the server. I'm just trying to connect to my work's
> mail server. I know nothing about IMAP just that they told me that's
> what we are running so we can keep the email on the servers.
>
> I've not set up anything except play with evolution to pray for the
> email gods to deliver.
>
> Is there anything I need to run or set up?
>

are you on the same lan as your work email server? 10.0.0.2 is a local
address, won't route over the internet, if thats what you're trying to
do. Does your office mail server have an 'external' ip that you can use?
If not then you won't be able to connect to it over the internet.
cheers!

Al

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Feb 3, 2002, 10:47:55 PM2/3/02

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I'm on the work lan. The local address you see(10.0.0.2) will only work
within the work lan. I just want to get it running over the local work lan.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Raj

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Feb 4, 2002, 8:45:26 AM2/4/02

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On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 22:47:55 -0500, Al wrote:

> I'm on the work lan. The local address you see(10.0.0.2) will only work
> within the work lan. I just want to get it running over the local work
> lan.
>

try telnetting to port 143 on 10.0.0.2.. (telnet 10.0.0.2 143) and see if
you get a connect
let us know