[Dovecot] Can't connect to IMAP

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Wed Aug 6 14:19:03 EEST 2008


Hi David,

Am 06.08.2008 10:59 schrieb David Hall:
>> My problem since a few days back is that IMAP doesn't seem to be started.
> 
> The logfiles says's everything is in order, but port 143 isn't up and
> Squirrelmail can't connect, i have no clue what's causing this
> everything runned smoothly a couple of days ago.
> 
> Im using postfix/amavis & spamassasin.

Is Dovecot really running on your system? Please show the output from
`ps -ef | grep dovecot` and `netstat -tlpn | egrep ':(143|993)`.
How do you try to connect to the imapd?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation

> Here's some information
> 
> Dovecot v1.1.2
> 
> [output from `dovecot -n` snipped ]
> 
> And once again.
> 
> I don't get any errors in the logfiles.
> 
> Mail.log last 5 lines after a restart
>> Aug  6 07:47:58 localhost postfix/virtual[32190]: C4FD1406024:
> to=<sn0wman at strutn.nu>, orig_to=<root at strutn.nu>, relay=virtual,
> delay=0.07, delays=0.03/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered
> to maildir)
>
This Mail was delivered with Postfix's virtual transport, not with
Dovecot's LDA http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix()

> Aug  6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Killed with signal 15
> Aug  6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.2 starting up
> Aug  6 10:55:57 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql:
> Connected to localhost (postfix)

Looks good.


Regards,
Pascal


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