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.
