hello all, i am getting the error "connection dropped by imap-server" when i try to login. the page simply hangs for some time on redirect.php and then i get this error message. i checked configuration of configtest.php, earlier it tool few seconds and i used to get the success message but now its first hangs on "Checking outgoing mail service..." i get a success message on this but after sometime and then it simply fails on IMAP. i checked my imap server setting and increased MAXPERIP to 200 which i think is sufficent for squirrelmail accesss imap from localhost. telnet localhost 143 ..works abs. fine. # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. a login sandeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <password> a OK LOGIN Ok. a logout * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down a OK LOGOUT completed Connection closed by foreign host. # i am able to receive mails on thunderbird. enabled imap logging at DEBUG level 2 these are the logs Sep 16 17:46:12 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 17:49:02 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 17:49:17 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 17:51:17 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 17:52:47 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 17:55:17 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 17:57:17 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 18:03:39 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 18:06:05 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Sep 16 18:06:14 ngblhost1 imapd: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], command=LOGIN Sep 16 18:06:14 ngblhost1 imapd: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], username=sandeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sep 16 18:06:14 ngblhost1 imapd: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], password=<password> Sep 16 18:06:14 ngblhost1 imapd: LOGIN, user=sandeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], protocol=IMAP Sep 16 18:06:16 ngblhost1 imapd: LOGOUT, user=sandeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=0, time=2 Sep 16 18:07:40 ngblhost1 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] and when tryinf to connect from squirrelmail the only message i get is "imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]" nothing after that and then i get the connection dropped error. i thought it was the imap error but i am able to connect to imap by all other means. server conf : RedHat 8.0 squirrelmail 1.4.4 (tired with 1.4.8 also but was unable to login, same error) Courier-imap - 4.0.1 courier-authlib-0.58 php-4.4.4 apche-2.0.59 (about 200 virtual hosts) mail server is a default qmr (qmailrocks) installation. after lot of trials i think its some thing to do with fsockopen or fgets. i tried executing this simple script <?php /** * Check the socket */ echo "Checking socket... \n"; /** Can we open a connection? */ $stream = fsockopen("localhost", 143,$errorNumber, $errorString); if(!$stream) { echo "error : $errorNumber , $errorString \n"; } else { echo "success \n"; } //$imapline = fgets($stream); if ($imapline) { echo $imapline; } else { echo "failed to get a line from socket"; } ?> commenting fgets give the results instantaneously but as i uncomment the fgets line script hangs and then i get the error ""failed to get a line from socket" thanks Sandeep ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users