I installed Squirrelmail so I can have people check their email via web. When I run the config test it says it's unable to connect to the imap server, doesn't even give a specific error. Does slackware use courier by default? How do I know if it's running? When I run nmap on the machine it shows port 143 (imap) open, so that should mean something is answering on that port. I installed dovecot and as suspected, it can't start because something is already running on that port. Looking through webmin I can't find anything regarding to imap settings either really. My inetd.conf has the following pertinent line:

# Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) server:
imap2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd

Any ideas or links to helpful information would be great, thanks guys!

try

netstat -p --listen | grep imap

and this should tell you what is listening on the imap port, for example, here is what it gives me

tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 2010/dovecot
tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 2010/dovecot

tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 170/inetd

I knew it was inetd but this isn't a choice on the squirrelmail config, is that the problem? Or is inetd called something else, like courier? I really wasn't able to find much useful through google.

That's OK - inetd is running your imap daemon. If you run grep '^imap' /etc/inetd.conf what do you get?

I posted it in the orignial post Here it is again though

root@Server:/home/rat# grep '^imap' /etc/inetd.conf
imap2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd

Is there something else you can reccommend I use? Then I'll just disable pop/imap from inetd like it comes standard.

Since inetd is setup to run the IMAP server when an IMAP request comes in, look in the system log or the mail log to see if Courier-IMAP is generating any errors when it tries to start. Try searching on running Courier-IMAP via inetd and see if you find any hits. Read the Courier-IMAP doc to see if it discusses running with inetd.

I'm not sure why you would want the IMAP server to start via inetd but it's your box.

Good luck!

Peace...

I really don't know what I want. Squirrelmail says it can't connect to the imap server. Whether I use inetd or something else I don't really care as long as I can get some kind of imap service going so webmail works

Ok, then I would disable IMAP in inetd's config file (inetd.conf I believe) and start Courier-IMAP manually. There should be a "imaprc" or "imapdrc" file you can use to fire up the IMAP server.

Give that a try and report back here. By the way, what version of Courier-IMAP are you running?

Peace...

I did a custom install, must have not included it because slocate imaprc returns nothing. That's ok though I can install courier now from source and that should be easier. Should I use pop from inetd? That's what I've been using and mail has worked fine thus far. Unless you can recommend some better reason not to use inetd

Try locating imapd.rc.

Peace...