Suddenly, probably caused by a recent update, my KMail is unable to connect to the dovecot imap server on the same system. The server has a listening port on 127.0.0.1:143 and support STARTTLS. KMail is configured to connect to that port. On that system "telnet localhost 143" shows: Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. Using "openssl s_client -connect localhost:143 -quiet" I get: 40F756DECB7F0000:error:0A00010B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:ssl/record/ssl3_record.c:354: Using "openssl s_client -connect localhost:143 -starttls imap -quiet" I can enter "tag login <username> <password>" and I get: tag NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. But I am sure username and password are OK. KMail also gets an authentication failure. But yesterday all was OK. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf