[Dovecot] "Select Inbox" drops connection. IMAP troubleshooting help available?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Thor Legvold wrote:

> Newbie to the list here. I don’t know if this is Dovecot specific, but I can see that my IMAP server is running Dovecot. So far (as a client) I haven’t been able to figure out how to get it to tell me the version number.
>
> What I’m trying to get is more detailed info in order to debug an IMAP problem.
>
> Anytime I issue a “Select” or “Examine” command with the “Inbox” as argument, the connection is dropped.
>
> E.g.: after logging in, listing folders, navigating around, I do this:
>
> a select inbox
> closed
> Sonovo:~ Thunder$
>
> and am back at the terminal prompt.
>
> If I do an “Email Trace” in CPanel on my server (hosting both my website 
> and IMAP email accounts), I see a long list of emails accepted to my 
> address and in the system, but I cannot seem to access them from any 
> client.

This is not an IMAP problem, but a server / mailbox problem. Check out the 
logfile of the server.

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Steffen Kaiser
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