[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem

[Charles Marcus]

On 2010-08-30 7:41 AM, Patrick Fay <pfay at nd.edu> wrote:
>> On 8/29/2010 8:51 PM, Patrick Fay wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Both of these are dovecot hits--but the name is different each time.
>>> Also the ?'s aren't really "?" marks; they're trans-ascii characters
>>> with high bits set that my mailer doesn't like very much.  It really
>>> looks like a misdirected pointer or something somewhere, but I'm not
>>> familiar enough with the codebase to know where to start looking, or
>>> if in fact it is something else that is misconfigured.  Any thoughts
>>> on how to resolve this?

>> Dovecot version?

> My apologies-- dovecot version 1.2.11.  

No problem - I thought maybe since you were on a Mac it might be a much
older version, which might be the cause...

Sorry I can't help further, maybe someone else has some ideas...

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Best regards,

Charles