[Dovecot] No localhost after reboot

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 27 18:43:23 EEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:17, Bob Hall wrote:
> Rebooted the server box today. Now Dovecot doesn't listen at 
> localhost. It does listen at the LAN interface, so it is 
> perfectly usable, but...
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why it has stopped listening at 
> localhost?

If settings still say imap_listen = *, it's probably got something to do
with IPv6.. I think localhost was defined as ::1 in BSDs.. I'm not sure
why it worked before then :)




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