imap problem

kponenation · 01-05-2006, 01:04 PM

I can't login to imap.

Code:

root@kponenation:~# telnet localhost imap
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN] localhost IMAP4rev1 2004.357 at Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:55:16 -0500 (EST)

imap seems to work but I can't login

Code:

a login root@whatever.homelinux.com mypassword
a NO LOGIN failed

I can send and receive emails using root@whatever.homelinux.com. Of course, I used pop3 not imap.
But I want to install squirrelmail and I have to install imap.
Why can't I login?

Thanks in advance.

James

mdarby · 01-05-2006, 01:24 PM

So do you want a web interface or do you want to migrate to IMAP?

kponenation · 01-05-2006, 01:25 PM

I can login w/ different id. I dont' think root is allowed to login. I want to allow root to login. How do i do this?

mdarby · 01-05-2006, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mdarby

So do you want a web interface or do you want to migrate to IMAP?

What *exactly* do you want to do? I'm sensing three different questions here.

gilead · 01-05-2006, 03:55 PM

It's probably better to alias root to another user in /etc/mail/aliases so that the non-privileged user gets root's mail. The root account doesn't get used except for admin type tasks so it would be easy to miss important mail. That bypasses the whole problem of root doing user tasks and having access problems with daemons.