[Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail

[Neil Quiogue]

Well do you have /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny set up on your
dovecot server?  Logs are important for this case:
1. On the dovecot server, what does it say on the log file?  Are there
any errors?  If you've set up with TCP wrappers support, then it would
probably in either /var/log/secure or /var/log/messages (depends on
where authpriv.* is directed to) for any tcp wrapper rejection.
2. On the squirrelmail web server, what is the result of the apache
error_log (or php log file if you have it separately)?  Have you tried
doing a 'telnet <dovecot ip address> 993'?   You should not get a
'connection refused'.

And you might want to look at Alan's suggestion on the support of
imaps on the PHP.  Best done by creating a file called info.php with
the following:
<?php

        phpinfo();

?>

Access it through your browser or run it through 'php info.php'.

Then look for the section on imap.  It should have something like:
SSL Support => enabled

Regards, Neil

2005/7/1, Srinivas <srinivaspatnaik at myway.com>:
> 
> >Only two things I can think of:
> >1. Dovecot was not configured for imap with ssl (check that
> >ssl_disable is not set to yes).  Also check the protocols statement
> >that it supports imaps.
> >
> >2. Check that you do not have access lists blocking off 993 to your
> >squirrelmail.  This is often encountered if using tcp wrappers and
> >you're running dovecot through (x)inetd.
> >
> >Regards, Neil
> 
> The ssl_disable is set to no and the protocols statement
> contains all the four protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s.
> 
> But i couldn't make out the 2nd point, you suggested.Can you,
> please, describe it a little more ?
>               Srinivas
> 
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