[Dovecot] Can't connect to IMAP

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Aug 6 18:06:52 EEST 2008


on 8-6-2008 7:18 AM David Hall spake the following:
> Pascal Volk skrev:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Am 06.08.2008 10:59 schrieb David Hall:
>>  
>>>>>> My problem since a few days back is that IMAP doesn't seem to be 
>>> started.
>>>
>>> The logfiles says's everything is in order, but port 143 isn't up and
>>> Squirrelmail can't connect, i have no clue what's causing this
>>> everything runned smoothly a couple of days ago.
>>>
>>> Im using postfix/amavis & spamassasin.
>>>     
>>
>> Is Dovecot really running on your system? Please show the output from
>> `ps -ef | grep dovecot` and `netstat -tlpn | egrep ':(143|993)`.
>> How do you try to connect to the imapd?
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
>>
>>  
>>> Here's some information
>>>
>>> Dovecot v1.1.2
>>>
>>> [output from `dovecot -n` snipped ]
>>>
>>> And once again.
>>>
>>> I don't get any errors in the logfiles.
>>>
>>> Mail.log last 5 lines after a restart
>>>>>> Aug  6 07:47:58 localhost postfix/virtual[32190]: C4FD1406024:
>>> to=<sn0wman at strutn.nu>, orig_to=<root at strutn.nu>, relay=virtual,
>>> delay=0.07, delays=0.03/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered
>>> to maildir)
>>>>>>     
>>
>> This Mail was delivered with Postfix's virtual transport, not with
>> Dovecot's LDA http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix()
>>
>>  
>>> Aug  6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Killed with signal 15
>>> Aug  6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.2 starting up
>>> Aug  6 10:55:57 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql:
>>> Connected to localhost (postfix)
>>>     
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pascal
>>
>>   
> Problem solved.
> 
> it was listen = and not listen = * that caused it.
> 
> strange thing is that i haven't changed those lines.
> 
> 
Did you recently upgrade from the 1.0 tree?
That setting now has different defaults then the 1.0 branch

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