On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:03 -0500, Jim wrote:
Does it
a) Hang after "Trying 127.0.0.1..." b) Hang after "Escape character is '^]'." c) Say connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
Naturally, now that I'm trying to duplicate the issue, I can't get
it to act up. If I can get into a mode where it stops working
again, I'll try that and report back.Finally had this happen again. Connecting via localhost worked just
fine, returned "OK Dovecot ready".
If Dovecot is answering on localhost, I can't think of any reasons why it wouldn't answer to non-localhost connections.
Connecting via my domain name
resulted in a hung connection that eventually just timed out.
So did it time out on a) or b)?
And you say "domain name", what about IP address? If the problem is with DNS resolving?
The only odd thing that I noticed when I went to stop and restart the
Dovecot process is that only one dovecot-auth process was running,
normally I see two processing running. After quitting Dovecot and
starting it again, I saw two dovecot-auth processes start up, and then
I was able to get mail just fine.
Was one of them "dovecot -w" process? Anyway the number of dovecot-auth processes shouldn't really make a difference.