Bash example of testing if a secure IMAP connection works?

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I want to add a test for a secure IMAP connection, authentication being part of it.

That I would run using a cron job. If anything wrong happens I do want to get and email, so if it goes well it should have no output.

Does anyone have such a script, bash, python,...?

You could use openssl s_client, as suggested here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14959461/how-to-talk-to-imap-server-in-bash-via-openssl — NickW, May 01 '14 at 14:34

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 27 '15 at 09:53

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You can use

openssl s_client -connect mail.example.com:993 -quiet <<EOF
some command
another command
EOF

to connect to the remote server.

edited Jan 27 '15 at 09:53

Juanmi Sosso

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answered May 01 '14 at 14:40

user9517

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '14 at 14:36

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There is a nagios-compatible plugin for IMAP available here. You can use that from a command-line without implementing Nagios. I believe it is a python script that you could repurpose.

answered May 01 '14 at 14:36

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Bash example of testing if a secure IMAP connection works?

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