IMAPS and/or openssl problem

[Timothy Murphy]

I'm trying to access my IMAPS (dovecot) server on my laptop
while on holiday.
But when I run kmail I get the message
"Could not connect to host <myserver>".
Both server and laptop are running Fedora 7 + KDE.

I suspect the problem lies in my openssl setup,
as when I run
openssl s_client -ssl2 -crlf -host <myserver> -port 993
I get no response - the program just waits until I press ctrl-C.

As is probably obvious, I am fairly ignorant about all this.
I can access my server with ssh, and so can change anything there,
except that I am unable to access the ADSL modem,
where I have opened peepholes for ssh, http and imaps (port 993).

(I cannot access the modem because when I run firefox on the server
it does not open a window on my laptop -
perhaps an X-permissions issue?)

Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.


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Timothy Murphy  
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