Horde fetch IMAP port issue?

[thingwarbler]

I'm moving a client from a jodohost VPS setup to a reseller setup. As part of the exercise I need to migrate mail sitting on a smartermail server on the VPS into the Horde mail system in hsphere. I've set up a Fetch Mail account in Horde that's supposed to IMAP to the smartermail server, but even though the Smartermail server is using the port that Horde requires (993) I'm still getting:

Fetchmail: Cannot connect to the remote mail server: Can't connect to mail.xxx.com,993: Connection timed out

From what I'm googling it may still be a port issue: either the reseller box or the VPS may not be open on 993 for the transaction to take place. Anyone have some additional guidance here -- or a different way of doing what I'm after?

 

[Stephen]

Do you know the user/pass on both sides? If so I'd just use outlook or tbird and drag and drop the mail across I have done this before for my own email.

Oh and for the issue, it may be that egress firewall is blocking port 993 from the server.

 

[thingwarbler]

Thx, Stephen. Yeah, that was the way I was initially thinking of doing it, but then I saw that nifty little Fetchmail feature in horde and thought it might do the trick more elegantly.

So much for elegant, but the old-fashioned way works fine...