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New user. Testing XI coming from Solarwinds products.
I used the exchange wizard to import my local mail server. I called support and was directed here.

My IMAP uses 143 and 993 depending on SSL. There is no documentation I can find on what the $arg1$ means for using -j as the argument.
I presume -j dictates port 143 instead of using 993 ?

Please see error:
connect to address 172.16.250.87 and port 143: Connection refused

I presume this is because no authentication mechanism has been defined. However I also don't see a way to provide one.

The command effectively becomes
when -j is in the $ARG1$ field.

The -j option is short for --jail which hides tcp outpt. You can find more information on this check and other options at https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/ ... _imap.html.

You can use -S and -p to specify SSL and a different port. Based on the results I think it's a problem with not being allowed to connect to the port(on the transport layer) and not a failure to authenticate.