Problems connecting to external (Fastmail.fm) IMAP server ox6.6

[OliverPlunkett]

Hi,

I am installing Ox6.6 for the first time.

I configured my yum to pick up the Ox6.6 packages from the FC9 repository, and then followed the instructions for FC8:

http://www.open-xchange.com/wiki/ind...dition_Fedora8

Everything is working fine. However, I want to connect to my ISP's (Fastmail.fm) IMAP server. I have read the forums and this seems possible.

http://www.open-xchange.com/forum/sh...=external+imap

I changed my testuser with the command:

/opt/open-xchange/sbin/changeuser -A oxadmin -P admin_password -c 1 -u testuser --imapserver mail.messagingengine.com:431 --imaplogin <mylogin>

I changed the mail.properties file so that IMAP credentials are picked up from the database:

com.openexchange.mail.credSrc=user.imapLogin

I disabled the OSGI Sieve filter just in case:

/opt/open-xchange/sbin/stopbundle com.openexchange.mail.filter

Then I restarted everything and tried the email. I see this in the log files:

Nov 20, 2008 4:22:33 PM com.openexchange.ajax.request.QuotaRequest mail
SEVERE: MSG-1023 Category=8 Message=Messaging error: connect timed out exceptionID=-1459155651-80
MSG-1023 Category=8 Message=Messaging error: connect timed out exceptionID=-1459155651-80
at com.openexchange.mail.mime.MIMEMailException.handl eMessagingException(MIMEMailException.java:456)
at com.openexchange.imap.IMAPAccess.connectInternal(I MAPAccess.java:330)
at com.openexchange.mail.api.MailAccess.connect(MailA ccess.java:313)
at com.openexchange.mail.MailServletInterfaceImpl.ini tConnection(MailServletInterfaceImpl.java:786)
at com.openexchange.mail.MailServletInterfaceImpl.get Quotas(MailServletInterfaceImpl.java:616)
at com.openexchange.ajax.request.QuotaRequest.mail(Qu otaRequest.java:161)
at com.openexchange.ajax.request.QuotaRequest.action( QuotaRequest.java:115)
at com.openexchange.ajax.Quota.doGet(Quota.java:107)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:596)
at com.openexchange.ajax.AJAXServlet.service(AJAXServ let.java:376)
at com.openexchange.ajax.SessionServlet.service(Sessi onServlet.java:152)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:689)
at com.openexchange.ajp13.AJPv13Request.response(AJPv 13Request.java:120)
at com.openexchange.ajp13.AJPv13RequestHandler.create Response(AJPv13RequestHandler.java:466)
at com.openexchange.ajp13.AJPv13Connection.createResp onse(AJPv13Connection.java:197)
at com.openexchange.ajp13.AJPv13Listener.run(AJPv13Li stener.java:259)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
Caused by: javax.mail.MessagingException: connect timed out;
nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore.protocolConnect(IMAPSt ore.java:571)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:288)
at com.openexchange.imap.IMAPAccess.connectInternal(I MAPAccess.java:288)
... 15 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Abstrac tPlainSocketImpl.java:310)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress( AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:176)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractP lainSocketImpl.java:163)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.j ava:381)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:537)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(Socke tFetcher.java:231)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFe tcher.java:189)
at com.sun.mail.iap.Protocol.<init>(Protocol.java:107 )
at com.sun.mail.imap.protocol.IMAPProtocol.<init>(IMA PProtocol.java:104)
at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPStore.protocolConnect(IMAPSt ore.java:538)
... 17 more

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

this seems to be a network timeout problem caused by a wrong port of the IMAP Server:

mail.messagingengine.com:431

seems a bit wrong - i tried to connect but got a timeout, using Port 143 should solve the Problem. Or is there any special need to use a non-standard port?

Greetings

[OliverPlunkett]

Martin,

Thank you for your quick reply. 431 was a good old-fashioned typo .

I changed to 143 and it worked immediatley.

Thank you again.