Testin new installation

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 13.06.2015, 13:40 -0400 schrieb Steve Matzura:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:16:30 +0200, you wrote:
> 
> > Am Samstag, den 13.06.2015, 08:00 -0400 schrieb Steve Matzura:
> > > 
> > > All of the above specified settings are correct. Yet, when I 
> > > telnet
> > > localhost 143, I get:
> > > 
> > > Trying ::1... # this is certainly suspect
> > > Escape character is '^['.
> > > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > 
> > What does 'netstat -l46np' say?
> 
> It doesn't look good.
> Active Internet connections (only servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address State
   
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143             0.0.0.0:* LISTEN     
> 
> 
> > dovecot process should appear with :143

Did you specify the p option? Then dovecot process name should appear.
Try telnet 127.0.0.1 143 instead of localhost
telnet localhost seems to use the IPv6 localhost adress which isn't
used on dovecot side.
I assume you don't use much IPv6 on this system, so this is no problem
at all.