On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 11.08.2015 um 22:28 schrieb Dr J Austin: >> >> Hi Alexander >> >> [root at maui:/var/log]$ watch 'tail -n40 maillog >> >> does not quiver when I try to connect > > That's suspicious. > > Let's exclude it is the client which causes the problem: Connect directly to > the IMAPS server on CLI. > > openssl s_client -connect <server ip>:993 > > You hopefully see a greeting message from the IMAP server. Then issue > > a1 LOGIN username password > > If you see a success message that you logged in, then everything is fine with > your cyrus-imapd. > > Logout by entering > > a2 LOGOUT > > If you got that far, the troublemaker is Evolution. Can't help you with that > one as I am not using it. Validate all the account settings to be valid. > >> In coming mail can be seen but nothing about evo connections as far as I >> can see >> >> There do seem to be some warnings/errors - they don't look relavant?? > > Right, irrelevant for your isse. > >> Many thanks for your help >> >> John >> >> >You really should see your user login in this log file. > > Alexander > Hmmm Summary On the server maui itself Failure when using IP address but works with name maui for root and fred On a separate machine paxos Failure for both IP address and name maui and maui.jaa.org.uk for both root and ja However the error messages are different between maui and paxos John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- As user fred on the server maui itself [fred at maui ~]$ openssl s_client -connect 148.197.29.5:993 socket: Connection refused connect:errno=111 As root on the server maui itself [root at maui:/var/log]$ openssl s_client -connect 148.197.29.5:993 socket: Connection refused connect:errno=111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As root on maui using "name" [root at maui:/var/log]$ openssl s_client -connect maui:993 CONNECTED(00000003) depth=0 C = UK, ST = Hampshire, L = Fareham, CN = maui.jaa.org.uk, emailAddress = ja at jaa.org.uk verify error:num=18:self signed certificate verify return:1 depth=0 C = UK, ST = Hampshire, L = Fareham, CN = maui.jaa.org.uk, emailAddress = ja at jaa.org.uk verify return:1 --- Certificate chain 0 s:/C=UK/ST=Hampshire/L=Fareham/CN=maui.jaa.org.uk/emailAddress=ja at jaa.org.uk i:/C=UK/ST=Hampshire/L=Fareham/CN=maui.jaa.org.uk/emailAddress=ja at jaa.org.uk --- Server certificate ... * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID AUTH=PLAIN SASL-IR COMPRESS=DEFLATE] maui.jaa.org.uk Cyrus IMAP v2.3.16-Fedora-RPM-2.3.16-13.el6_6 server ready a1 LOGIN username password al OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID LOGINDISABLED AUTH=PLAIN COMPRESS=DEFLATE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE SCAN IDLE LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED X-NETSCAPE URLAUTH] User logged in a2 LOGOUT * BYE LOGOUT received a2 OK Completed read:errno=0 These also work OK [ja at maui ~]$ openssl s_client -connect maui:993 ja at maui ~ 4$ openssl s_client -connect maui.jaa.org.uk:9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- On a separate machine paxos - always fails As user ja on a separate machine paxos ja at paxos ~ 1$ openssl s_client -connect 148.197.29.5:993 socket: Bad file descriptor connect:errno=9 As root on a separate machine paxos [root at paxos:~]$ openssl s_client -connect 148.197.29.5:993 socket: Bad file descriptor connect:errno=9 [root at paxos:~]$ openssl s_client -connect maui:993 socket: Bad file descriptor connect:errno=9 [root at paxos:~]$ openssl s_client -connect maui.jaa.org.uk:993 socket: Bad file descriptor connect:errno=9 [root at paxos:~]$ exit logout ja at paxos ~ 3$ openssl s_client -connect maui:993 socket: Bad file descriptor connect:errno=9 ja at paxos ~ 4$ openssl s_client -connect maui.jaa.org.uk:993 socket: Bad file descriptor connect:errno=9