On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Allen Sim wrote:
I am a new linux user.I jz setting up a mail server.Downloaded &
Configured the components:CentOS,OpenLDAP,pam,dovecotMailServer,s
endmial,squireelmail etc....
Okay.
But wehn i want to check whether it works or not, so i open up my
clientmail, wchi is Netscape 7.2. in Edit > Mail & Newsgroups Account
Setting > server setting... i had put the ip address for the
machine... but error pop out: Could not connect to mail server
10.XX.XX.XXX;the connection was refused. what's wrong wth it???
I don't know, let's see.
how to check wthere the mail server work?
my second question.
Dovecot dead but subsys locked
aft i typed: /etc/init.d/dovecot status,
it shows:dovecot dead but subsys locked.
I deleted /var/lock/subsys/dovecot. but whn i start my
dovecot,etc/init.d/dovecot start, same problem occur again....how to
solve ths???
below is frm /var/log/maillog :
Mar 19 15:17:28 hosting sendmail[3617]: m2J1EtMP003319:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(0/0), delay=06:02:32, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=665894,
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver)
exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
What version of Dovecot are you using? Have you read through
http://wiki.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork ?
i am new in this. anyone can help??? appreciate ur reply....
I don't know this 'subsys locked' thing printed by your init script. Have
you tried doing '/etc/init.d/dovecot restart'?
And do check out the dovecot.org page I just linked.
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