IMAPS and/or openssl problem

I'm trying to access my IMAPS (dovecot) server on my laptop while on holiday. But when I run kmail I get the message "Could not connect to host <myserver>". Both server and laptop are running Fedora 7 + KDE. I suspect the problem lies in my openssl setup, as when I run openssl s_client -ssl2 -crlf -host <myserver> -port 993 I get no response - the program just waits until I press ctrl-C. As is probably obvious, I am fairly ignorant about all this. I can access my server with ssh, and so can change anything there, except that I am unable to access the ADSL modem, where I have opened peepholes for ssh, http and imaps (port 993). (I cannot access the modem because when I run firefox on the server it does not open a window on my laptop - perhaps an X-permissions issue?) Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland