[Imap-uw] Re: Tracing IMAP session

Dan White dwhite at olp.net
Wed Aug 12 08:51:36 PDT 2009


If you have access to the network path between the client and the server,
and assuming you are not doing SSL, then Wireshark should give you a view
on the IMAP session.

On 12/08/09 08:33 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote:

> This is normally done from the client side, due to the security

> sensitivity of IMAP transactions. Check to see if there is some option

> in your smart phone to enable IMAP session logging.

>

> Otherwise, the normal way to do server-based logging is with tee (for

> non-encrypted sessions) and/or an SSL proxy that does logging.

>

> Sadly, most smart phone IMAP clients are pretty bad. Palm once had a

> good client, but I don't think it ever got built for the Pre.

>

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Thomas Börkel wrote:

>> I have some problems with the IMAP client of the Palm Pre phone and

>> would like to debug this.

>>

>> How can I enable tracing all IMAP communication in uw-imap 2007e?

>>

>> I have seen trace files on the net, but cannot find how to enable that.

>

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