IMAP Mail

[newebirl]

How do I set up IMAP Mail on my Plesk control panel or on my local email software.

I regularly check mail from two locations and I would like to connect using IMAP instead of POP3.
Can this be done in Plesk and if so what are the settings???

[blacknight]

Same as pop3, except you set it as IMAP

[newebirl]

I tried setting it up like that but it just keeps giving me the message
"Could not connect to the mail server mail.mydomain.tld; the connection was refused"

I tried it in Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express and the same answer for them all.

The mail works fine when set up as POP3

[blacknight]

That's odd

AFAIK it should work fine using the same mail hosts

[newebirl]

Originally Posted by blacknight

That's odd

AFAIK it should work fine using the same mail hosts

I tried a number of different settings and email software and still can't get it to work.
I also searched the Plesk forum for help but can't find anything relating to this issue.

[pkelly]

Check your firewall settings. in a root shell type:

# iptables -L -v -n

Firstly do you have a firewall enabled? if so is port 143/tcp allowed in?

Paul

[newebirl]

Originally Posted by pkelly

Check your firewall settings. in a root shell type:

# iptables -L -v -n

Firstly do you have a firewall enabled? if so is port 143/tcp allowed in?

Paul

Can you point me in the direction on how to do this on the server.

On my local system the firewall was turned off while I tested the account.

[newebirl]

Just logged in remotly and ran a MailEnable report and it says
IMAP Service not installed.

Could this be anything to do with it!!

[pkelly]

Ah ... that explains that. I should have asked you for your account details. IMAP is not a feature of the free version of MailEnable. You should be able to purchase the paid edition for <100 euro once off and that'll give you imap and some other tasty features.

Paul