Shazia Javed writes:

Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'.

• OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. ...

telnet mail.ut.ee 143

Trying 193.40.5.156... Connected to mailhost.ut.ee. Escape character is '^]'.

• OK IMAP4 ready

That is weird. Maybe you got NAT forwarding going on where a firewall or other network appliance (like a load balancer) is translating ip1/143 -> ip2/143? Or you're not on the host you think you're on.

You can check the dovecot logs to verify that in fact your client is connecting.

Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com