[Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.01.2013 16:48, schrieb Chris Evans:
> root at delldeb:/etc/dovecot# ps aux | grep dove
> root     10353  0.0  0.0   3944   792 ?        Ss   15:32   0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> root     10356  0.0  0.0  10008  2420 ?        S    15:32   0:00 dovecot-auth
> root     10360  0.0  0.0  10008  2372 ?        S    15:32   0:00 dovecot-auth -w
> dovecot  10361  0.0  0.0   5412  2024 ?        S    15:32   0:00 imap-login
> dovecot  10362  0.0  0.0   5412  2024 ?        S    15:32   0:00 imap-login
> dovecot  10363  0.0  0.0   5412  2028 ?        S    15:32   0:00 imap-login
> root     10393  0.0  0.0   3304   772 pts/2    S+   15:33   0:00 grep dove
> 
> Here's netstat:
> root at delldeb:/etc/dovecot# netstat -tap | grep 143
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.143:imap2         *:* LISTEN      9178/dovecot
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.143:imaps         *:* LISTEN      9178/dovecot
> 
> I can telnet into SMTP OK with telnet localhost 25 but telnet localhost 143 gets me the "Connection refused"

as you can see you daemon ist listening on IP 0.0.0.143 instead 0.0.0.0

1.2.x is really really old
but i think you missunderstood a listen-option

listen: 143 993
seems to be translated to 0.0.0.143, means you specified
the ADDRESS the daemon should listen to instead the port

root at delldeb:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n
# 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.6
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
listen: 143 993


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