Re: Strange IMAPS problem

Serge Wroclawski wrote, at 26.10.2004 15:09:

> I installed roundup and decided that instead of going the fetchmail
> route, I'd do the cleaner thing and use roundup's builtin mail
> grabbing facility.
>
> I am using an IMAPS server and the username and password are correct.
>
> When I execute the grabbing command
>
>  /opt/roundup/bin/roundup-mailgw /opt/roundup/trackers/it-support
> imaps it-support:mypassword@myimapserver
>
> I get:
> Trying server "myimapserver" with ssl
> SOCKET ssl error: The read operation timed out
>
> To be sure that it wasn't something wrong with me, I tried the imaplib
> Postfix example from  http://www.python.org/doc/lib/imap4-example.html
>  and fed it the username and password (instead of using getpass) and
> it works. I also tried the above command without arguments so it would
> prompt me, and got the same result.

this example shows use of imap protocol while you are trying to make 
imaps connection with roundup.

it is possible that your imap server does not do ssl at all, or ssl 
listener is bound to non-standard port (default port number for imaps is 
993).

best wishes,
alex.




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