[Dovecot] IMAP issues?
J Moore
jaymo at cullmail.com
Tue Jul 25 07:16:58 EEST 2006
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:15:18PM +1000, the unit calling itself Curtis Maloney wrote:
> 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...
Oh good grief... I'm embarassed to admit that my packet filter/firewall
(pf) was mis-configured! The connections on 993 were blocked - that's
why there were no maillog entries.
Sorry for the trouble, but thanks for your reply :)
Best Rgds,
Jay
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