Re: [Evolution] IMAP SSL wierdness

["Warren G. Anderson" <wganderson utb edu>]

On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 18:31, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> That doesn't make any sense, imap doesn't know anything about mbox and
> mbox doesn't know anything about imap.
>
> Nor do different accounts have any knowlegde of each other at all.

I did call it wierdness ...

> How do you know what port it connected to? 

Server log messages. 

> Are you sure it didn't
> connect *before* you specified ssl?

I had tested the imap connection without ssl first. Then I chose work
offline, I specified ssl, and then went back online to initiate contact.
A server log message appeared on my root window (thanks to root-tail)
saying xinetd had accepted a connection on port 143. I shutdown
evolution and started it again. Again port 143. Deleted the imap
account, started over (with ssl selected). Again port 143. I did some
research on the web, decided that I didn't understand why I couldn't get
imaps to work, wondered if making it the default account would somehow
help (I know, it's irrational), decided to go one better and just get
rid of the mbox account, and then shut down evolution and started it up
again and saw the connection to port 993 pop up. I guess the other thing
that had changed is I had a imap timeout in between. Hmmm ... anyway, I
don't see how a pre-existing connection could have been there (unless
evolution uses some external imap client that runs even when evolution
doesn't).

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