Hello, After upgrading from 8.0 to 9.1, I can no longer get my wife's Eudora to connect to my imapd server. I have OpenSSL, imapd installed and configured properly, I believe. I followed the SSL instructions to create a self-signed cert in /etc/ssl/certs, and enabled service imaps in /etc/xinetd.d/imap. Eudora is (now) configured for SSL, according to recommendations I found at the eudora site and UW. Whenever Eudora starts and attempts to check mail, it reports, "The IMAP command has failed. Reason: IMAP connection to server 192.168.1.6 has been broken." /var/log/mail has the following: Aug 21 21:29:40 jlc imapd[12159]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12089]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12160]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12159]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:44 jlc imapd[12160]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:50 jlc imapd[12161]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 I seem to recall this sort of problem being discussed, but cannot find any threads that are relevant to this particular problem. One thread at Univ. of Washington talked about the "stream end of file" problem, but the solution proposed there made no difference with my situation. The error messages on each side don't give enough information to understand what's happening. Is there anything I can set in a config file to increase the information? Thanks, Jim Cunning
You are telling Eudora to use port 993? Which is imaps. It has been awhile but go to the Eudora documentation on the web site and it will tell you how to add imaps.... It doesn't do it in the regular set up, if I remember correctly. Neal http://www.susehelp.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cunning [mailto:jcunning@cunning.ods.org] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:40 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Getting imapd and Eudora to talk Hello, After upgrading from 8.0 to 9.1, I can no longer get my wife's Eudora to connect to my imapd server. I have OpenSSL, imapd installed and configured properly, I believe. I followed the SSL instructions to create a self-signed cert in /etc/ssl/certs, and enabled service imaps in /etc/xinetd.d/imap. Eudora is (now) configured for SSL, according to recommendations I found at the eudora site and UW. Whenever Eudora starts and attempts to check mail, it reports, "The IMAP command has failed. Reason: IMAP connection to server 192.168.1.6 has been broken." /var/log/mail has the following: Aug 21 21:29:40 jlc imapd[12159]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12089]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12160]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12159]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:44 jlc imapd[12160]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:50 jlc imapd[12161]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 I seem to recall this sort of problem being discussed, but cannot find any threads that are relevant to this particular problem. One thread at Univ. of Washington talked about the "stream end of file" problem, but the solution proposed there made no difference with my situation. The error messages on each side don't give enough information to understand what's happening. Is there anything I can set in a config file to increase the information? Thanks, Jim Cunning -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Did you try this SuSE page on Linux 8.2? It is close the changes for the files are already in place for the xinetd files in SuSE 9.1. This just takes care of the certificate problem. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/05/imap_ssl.html The other gentlemen was right, and you do have to have the correct port setup. I found this on the eudora site. http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2307hq.html Jim Cunning wrote:
Hello,
After upgrading from 8.0 to 9.1, I can no longer get my wife's Eudora to connect to my imapd server. I have OpenSSL, imapd installed and configured properly, I believe. I followed the SSL instructions to create a self-signed cert in /etc/ssl/certs, and enabled service imaps in /etc/xinetd.d/imap. Eudora is (now) configured for SSL, according to recommendations I found at the eudora site and UW.
Whenever Eudora starts and attempts to check mail, it reports, "The IMAP command has failed. Reason: IMAP connection to server 192.168.1.6 has been broken."
/var/log/mail has the following: Aug 21 21:29:40 jlc imapd[12159]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12089]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12160]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56 Aug 21 21:29:41 jlc imapd[12159]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:44 jlc imapd[12160]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=??? host=[192.168.1.56] Aug 21 21:29:50 jlc imapd[12161]: imaps SSL service init from 192.168.1.56
I seem to recall this sort of problem being discussed, but cannot find any threads that are relevant to this particular problem. One thread at Univ. of Washington talked about the "stream end of file" problem, but the solution proposed there made no difference with my situation.
The error messages on each side don't give enough information to understand what's happening. Is there anything I can set in a config file to increase the information?
Thanks, Jim Cunning
On Aug 22 at 12:07am, Ann Hopkins wrote:
Did you try this SuSE page on Linux 8.2? It is close the changes for the files are already in place for the xinetd files in SuSE 9.1. This just takes care of the certificate problem.
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/05/imap_ssl.html
The other gentlemen was right, and you do have to have the correct port setup. I found this on the eudora site.
Just getting back to this after higher priority tasks. Thanks for the links. I had not seen these particular ones, but did have similar information. I did confirm that Eudora is using the proper port (in Eudora.ini), but after completing the recommended steps in the links provided, none of the behavior changes. As a test, I tried configuring kmail to use SSL and port 993 from another 9.1 system. Kmail did complain about the self-signed certificate, but then asked if I wanted to continue. A yes reply, gets me in and I can see the mailboxes without problem. So, is it possible that Eudora can't deal with self-signed certificates? Anyone had any experience with SSL from Eudora 5.1 to a 9.1 mail server? Jim
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ooooo. Had that problem. Does it always complain about the self-signed certificate? I use "Thunderbird" but it did complain each time, until I figured out that I needed the self-signed certificate "Common Name" to be the "server name" like "mail.handypaws.com." When I correctly remade the certificates, I only got asked once to accept the certificate permanently, and I was happy for awhile until I tried to get "imap" and "pop" on the same server, but that was another problem which I did solve. I don't use "Eudora" anymore. Do you get any error messages? Jim Cunning wrote: | On Aug 22 at 12:07am, Ann Hopkins wrote: | | |>Did you try this SuSE page on Linux 8.2? It is close the changes for the |>files are already in place for the xinetd files in SuSE 9.1. This just takes |>care of the certificate problem. |> |>http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/05/imap_ssl.html |> |>The other gentlemen was right, and you do have to have the correct port setup. |>I found this on the eudora site. |> |>http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2307hq.html | | | Just getting back to this after higher priority tasks. | | Thanks for the links. I had not seen these particular ones, but did have | similar information. I did confirm that Eudora is using the proper port | (in Eudora.ini), but after completing the recommended steps in the links | provided, none of the behavior changes. As a test, I tried configuring | kmail to use SSL and port 993 from another 9.1 system. Kmail did complain | about the self-signed certificate, but then asked if I wanted to continue. | A yes reply, gets me in and I can see the mailboxes without problem. | | So, is it possible that Eudora can't deal with self-signed certificates? | Anyone had any experience with SSL from Eudora 5.1 to a 9.1 mail server? | | Jim | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBK8zqhs7JGk93PT0RAgfHAJ9ck8N1iwmrzeFh5LlRqil8l2FuqgCfSxHo FV4T9XyT345DdOVNBqzLblM= =5Wq7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Aug 24 at 4:19pm, Ann Hopkins wrote: [snip]
I don't use "Eudora" anymore. Do you get any error messages?
Jim Cunning wrote:
| On Aug 22 at 12:07am, Ann Hopkins wrote: [snip] takes |>care of the certificate problem. |> |>http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/05/imap_ssl.html |> |>The other gentlemen was right, and you do have to have the correct port setup. |>I found this on the eudora site. |> |>http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2307hq.html [snip] | So, is it possible that Eudora can't deal with self-signed certificates? | Anyone had any experience with SSL from Eudora 5.1 to a 9.1 mail server?
FYI, I think that Eudora 5.1 is simply broken when it comes to using STARTTLS or SSL, with SuSE 9.1 at least. I downloaded Eudora 6.1 and configured it for STARTTLS and it complained about the self-signed certificate (rather than just saying the IMAP command failed). After using Eudora's certificate manager to add my cert to the trusted list, everything works fine. SSL using port 993 still doesn't work, but I don't care now. Jim
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