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Re: imaps taking a very long time to complete



On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Andrew Pritchard wrote:

> I've got an IMAP server setup at home - which works internally just
> fine.  However, I'm about to go on holiday and would like to be able
> to collect my email over the net. However I don't want to send my
> cleartext password over 3000 miles of internet.

A sensible idea.

> So.... I've set it up
> with IMAPS.

With what package?

> BUT it's taking a very long time to complete. It's almost
> as if it's failing the DNS record lookup - but I don't think it's that
> as plain ordinary IMAP works just fine and the logs indicate it
> successfully looked up the host.
>

If it is uw-imapd-ssl, what if anything does /var/log/mail.log say?

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>



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