[CentOS] C6.7 evolution to cyrus imap(s) fails

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