On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:00:12AM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
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I'm assuming that you are using IMAPS and not plain IMAP so you cannot just test the connection with telnet, you would need to use openssl. So try the following (replacing imap.host.name with whatever your ISP's host is called):
- openssl s_client -crlf -connect imap.host.name:993
If succcessful you will see the message "CONNECTED" followed by a lot of details about the certificate in use (see my test to my server below)
Now login with your user name and password
- a001 login admin@rlogin.net password
(the a001 bit is just a tag, it can be anything you like)
If successful, you will get a message like:
Can you take me through login again? When do I type in my password? On prompt? (I've got so far but it's not happy about this bit. I have two email addresses with my isp, by the way. I'm not sure if that makes any difference.)
It can be different from one ISP to another (I think). Who is your ISP (or do you mean domain host)?