[Dovecot] Setting up a local shared mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 19:54 Europe/Helsinki, Peter Clark wrote:

> 	Almost everything works fine, although I'm concerned about 
> 'imap_listen = *'.
> Is there any way to restrict this to just localhost? I tried 
> 'imap_listen =
> localhost', but that didn't seem to work. (Ditto with 127.0.0.1).

That should work. What do you mean by it didn't work? Does Dovecot 
start? Is there anything in log files (/var/log/mail.log)? Can you 
"telnet localhost imap2"? Does "netstat -l" show that it's listening 
there?