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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:14:18 -0600 (CST)
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   conf/46294: /etc/services has obsolete/bogus information for IMAP
Message-ID:  <200212161914.gBGJEI3t063429@lerlaptop.iadfw.net>

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>Number:         46294
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       /etc/services has obsolete/bogus information for IMAP
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 16 11:20:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Larry Rosenman
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
LERCTR Consulting
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD lerlaptop.iadfw.net 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #26: Mon Dec 16 10:13:06 CST 2002 ler@lerlaptop.iadfw.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP i386


	
>Description:
/etc/services lists ports that are not now valid for IMAP stuff, per below 
news posting from Mark Crispin.


    From mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU Mon Dec 16 13:11:30 CST 2002
    Article: 15971 of comp.mail.imap
    Path: lerami!lerami.lerctr.org!egsner!dfw-feed.news.verio.net!phl-feed.news.verio.net!newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!panix!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!140.142.17.34.MISMATCH!news.u.washington.edu!shiva0.cac.washington.edu!mrc
    From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
    Newsgroups: comp.mail.imap
    Subject: Re: basic IMAP questions
    Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:42:15 -0800
    Organization: Networks and Distributed Computing
    Lines: 23
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.51.0212161037320.24671@shiva0.cac.washington.edu>
    References: <258BA3CB81631B83.A54FB99329FE21B0.E764716AC1FEA384@lp.airnews.net>
     <atl2e8$odp$1@lerami.lerctr.org>
    NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva0.cac.washington.edu
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
    X-Trace: nntp6.u.washington.edu 1040064137 101764 (None) 140.142.17.39
    X-Complaints-To: help@cac.washington.edu
    In-Reply-To: <atl2e8$odp$1@lerami.lerctr.org>
    Content-Length: 314159 (believe this at your own risk)
    Xref: lerami!lerami.lerctr.org comp.mail.imap:15971
    
    On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Larry Rosenman wrote:
    > IMAP uses port 143 by default, and
    > imap		143/tcp	   imap2 imap4 #Interim Mail Access Protocol v2
    > imap		143/udp	   imap2 imap4 #Interim Mail Access Protocol v2
    > imap3		220/tcp	   #Interactive Mail Access Protocol v3
    > imap3		220/udp	   #Interactive Mail Access Protocol v3
    > imap4-ssl	585/tcp	   #IMAP4+SSL (use of 585 is not recommended,
    > imap4-ssl	585/udp	   #		use 993 instead)
    > imaps		993/tcp			# imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL
    > imaps		993/udp
    
    Some corrections: there has never been a UDP IMAP.  Ports 220 and 585 were
    never used and never should have been allocated.
    
    The correct data is simply:
    
    imap		143/tcp	   imap2 imap4	#Internet Message Access Protocol
    imaps		993/tcp			# imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL
    
    -- Mark --
    
    http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
    Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
    

>How-To-Repeat:
See above
>Fix:
Remove offending lines? 
	


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