[Dovecot] Vacation?

[Charles Marcus]

On 7/10/2008, kbajwa (kbajwa at tibonline.net) wrote:
> CentOS 5.2
> Postfix 2.3.3 + updates (bundled with CentOS 5.2)
> Dovecot-1.0.7 (bundled with CentOS 5.2)
> Dovecot-1.1.1 (Updated from www.atrpms.com as recommended by Charles Marcus)

? Hopefully you don't have BOTH 1.0.7 and 1.1.1 installed? ;)

> After the above software is installed, 'pop3' does not open.

Proof? Logs showing dovecot startup failure? Th logs you did show showed
dovecot starting up successfully...

> I research the internet and found discussion on this problem. It has
> something to do with IPV6 causing the problem. On the internet it is
> suggested to change [::] to '*'.

This is well documented in the example dovecot config file:

<see attached>

So, just change:

listen = [::]

to:

listen = *

or you can specify per protocol, again, as documented...

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Best regards,

Charles


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