[Dovecot] IMAP issues?

[Curtis Maloney]

J Moore wrote:
> I've probably done something dumb, but a quick search on Google, etc has 
> turned up nothing I recognized as useful. I just installed dovecot on an 
> OpenBSD 3.9 box. It is working fine with secure POP3 (after changing the 
> config file to "mbox_write_locks = fcntl"). 
> 

Which version of Dovecot?

> I also selected secure IMAP as a protocol, but it is proving to be more 
> resistant to working. I am trying to connect to dovecot using Outlook as 
> a client (sigh). Outlook's error messages are to the effect that it is 
> unable to connect to the server. Looking in /var/log/maillog indicates 
> that a connection was not even attempted!

Can you telnet to port 993?
Does netstat -a show it as listening?
Can you see the imap listener tasks in the process list?

Have you tried turning on the verbose logging?

Just the questions that come immediately to mind...

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Curtis Maloney
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