[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem

[Patrick Fay]

> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>>   I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8.  Everything works
>>>> perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the
>>>> application firewall prevents dovecot connections.  I have tried
>>>> explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work.  I
>>>> have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a
>>>> solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the
>>>> same problem.  The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a
>>>> corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like:
>>>> 
>>>> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from
>>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6
>>>> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from
>>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6
>>>> Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from
>>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6
>>>> Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from
>>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6
>>>> Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times ---
>>>> 
>>>> where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP
>>>> address.  For all of the other services I've used, the process name
>>>> (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead
>>>> of the funny characters.  Any advice on how I could resolve this issue
>>>> would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> I was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use.  I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall works fine with postfix and several file services I use (enabling/disabling works as expected, process names get logged as expected, etc).   Thanks!
>> 
>> Patrick
> 
> So, you're running Dovecot and Postfix on a laptop?  WTF?
> 
> -- 
> Stan

Hi,
    Sorry for the confusion--no laptop involved.  Postfix, dovecot, etc, all running on intel-based desktop mac (a mac pro).  

Patrick