[Dovecot] [Urgent] Email Retrieval from remote servers doesn't use Dovecot

[Joseph Tam]

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 at gmail.com>