That was already configured and it still refuses to respond on port 110. I keep getting connection refused errors, when I telnet or use a mail client to access port 110....

Maikel Verheijen wrote:

On Jul 22, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:

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Timo-

Hi Tom,

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Thanks for all the help. After I changed the permissions to the virtual user I setup I had a few small issues but was able to work through them. Now IMAP is running great. But my new question is, do I need to do anything to get it to work with POP? My server refuses to respond on 110 and I'm wondering if there is something I need to do? I was under the impression that Dovecot can handle both POP/IMAP requests. TIA

If you add pop3 to your protocols section and restart dovecot, it should also listen to the pop3 port. eg: protocols = imap pop3

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Tom

Kind regards,

Maikel Verheijen

This is what I have:

Protocols we want to be serving:

imap imaps pop3 pop3s

protocols = imap pop3

IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently

possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4

interfaces.

"[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4

interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with

"host:port".

imap_listen = * pop3_listen = *

When I run NMAP this is what I get back:

PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 111/tcp open rpcbind 143/tcp open imap

Now the only time I need to uncomment something in the conf file is if I change it from the default settings, correct? Do I need to have anything setup in my xinetd.d directory?

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 16:09, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:

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That was already configured and it still refuses to respond on port 110. I keep getting connection refused errors, when I telnet or use a mail client to access port 110....

protocols = pop3 is the only thing that should be needed. Do you see any pop3-login processes? Are you sure the protocols-line wasn't just commented out? :)

I set it up using xinet.d and turns out you need to call the file pop3 not just pop in the /etc/xinetd.d directory. Thanks for jarring my memory....it's the small things you always forget to overlook.

The good news is now both IMAP and POP are working without error!!!

Thanks for all the help Timo, I'm rather impressed with Dovecot and you got yourself a loyal user from here out.

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 16:46, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:

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This is what I have:

Protocols we want to be serving:

imap imaps pop3 pop3s

protocols = imap pop3

Well, that should work.. Does ps show any pop3-login processes? Do you have pop3-login binary?

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Now the only time I need to uncomment something in the conf file is if I change it from the default settings, correct?

Right.

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Do I need to have anything setup in my xinetd.d directory?

Dovecot doesn't use inetd by default. Or did you setup imap via inetd?

It's not listening on 110 at all, that's the problem.

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address
State
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:32768 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:32769 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::22 :::*
LISTEN

Maikel Verheijen wrote:

Hi Tom,

On Jul 22, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:

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That was already configured and it still refuses to respond on port 110. I keep getting connection refused errors, when I telnet or use a mail client to access port 110....

Does it report anything in the log about the pop3 protocol?

Could you do a netstat -an to see if it might be listening to localhost only?

Good luck,

Maikel.