Hi all,
In switching from Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy (7.5 64bit, network install), I'm finding some surprises in getting Dovecot to work.
PROBLEM: As installed, the package manager doesn't give you the dovecot executable.
WORKAROUND: To install the dovecot executable, you need to follow these instructions:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/DebianStable
PROBLEM: Even when you install Dovecot, it doesn't work, as evidenced by the inability of a local email client to talk to it. Further elements of the symptom are that nmap -A -T4 LocalIPAddress, whether LocalIPAddress is the IP of eth0, or 127.0.0.1, fails to find any open ports. Telnet can't operate dovecot at port 143, and openssl can't operate it at 993. However, bizarrly, executing these same commands on a remote machine into the original machine (including accessing the machine's Dovecot from an email client) work perfectly.
WORKAROUND To "solve" this problem, do the following raindance as root:
ifdown lo ifup lo
After the raindance, local access to Dovecot works perfectly, and all nmap commands perform as expected.
LOL, hey man, don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger.
SteveT
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