Jim Trigg schreef:

On Tue, May 2, 2006 1:27 pm, Floris van den Berg wrote:
 

Jim Trigg schreef:
   

On Tue, May 2, 2006 10:45 am, Floris van den Berg wrote:

     

Jim Trigg schreef:

       

On Tue, May 2, 2006 1:15 am, Floris van den Berg wrote:


         

Since version 1.0 I experience strange problems with dovecot. At the
moment I have beta 7 installed. I use FreeBSD 6.0.

  * Pop3 works
  * Imap works, but only when i telnet to localhost
  * In all other cases I can't connect to the server. Tried with
squirrelmail, uebimau and thunderbird. Squirrelmail after a long time
waiting: "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server."

           

What happens if you try to telnet to the imap port other than
localhost?


         

Hi, that works too. It didn't work before because i didn't properly
disable the firewall.

       

Do the mail clients work now, then, or do we need to keep
troubleshooting?

     

Webmail still doesn't work. Other clients however do work.
I still have no clue what's wrong :(
   

Actually, here are all of my imap-related entries from Squirrelmail's
config.php -- what is different in your setup?

$imapServerAddress      = 'localhost';
$imapPort               = 143;
$imap_server_type       = 'other';
$imap_auth_mech = 'login';
$use_imap_tls = false;
 

No difference. It's getting weirder and weirder.

1) imap works fine when i connect to this dovecot from a remote client (e.g. thunderbird or scripts provided above)
2) everything works fine when i use the troubled box and connect to a remote dovecot server, using telnet and the scripts provided above.
3) the scripts above do work when used with localhost but they are extremely slow. It takes about 1,5 to 2 minutes to complete just to perform a login/logout sequence.

Seems to be something wrong with connecting to localhost on that port. Can't pinpoint what it is. Oh by the way, results do not differ when the firewall is enabled or disabled.

Floris