On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:41:01 +0200, you wrote: >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.
Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 25239/dovecot tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 25239/dovecot tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 25239/dovecot tcp 0 0 <my-system's-ip-address>:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1111/named tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1111/named tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 11686/sshd tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1111/named tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 31857/icecast tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 25239/dovecot tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8001 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 31857/icecast I eliminated the IPv6 lines for brevity. >Try telnet 127.0.0.1 143 instead of localhost When I telnet 127.0.0.1 143 from a non-root account, I get "Connection closed by foreign host." When I do it from root, it connects but I get no other response and have to ^] to disconnect. >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. That's right. IN fact, the only v6 used at all is for our audio streaming services.
