On Saturday 27 August 2011 20:45:38 Anton Aylward wrote:

I have various mailboxes at remote locations that I connect to by either POP or or IMAP.

Is there any way to tell the type of server I'm connected to ... Courier, Cyrus, Dovecot ... whatever?

If it's using STARTTLS (as opposed to straight SSL) you can telnet to the server, it will normally introduce itself to you when you connect If it is ssl, maybe it's possible to use s_client to connect, or maybe you can get your email client to dump its raw data (debug mode?), or maybe you can use the SSL decoding feature in wireshark to look at the greet string Otherwise you'll have to determine it by feature set. These servers differ in subtle ways, like which character is used to separate subfolders. I remember when playing with Horde, there were a few settings that needed to be changed depending on which server was on the backend, but I forget the details Or maybe....ask the people running the server Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org