Hi Nick,
honestly, I don't know why that port was set to 0, I just inherited the
whole server...
however, even changing that number to 143 and restarting dovecot makes no
difference in the output of netstat I just pasted in another reply....
Il giorno mar 21 gen 2025 alle ore 19:00 Nick Howitt via dovecot <
dovecot@dovecot.org> ha scritto:
> Any reason why the imap-listener port is set to 0 and not 143 or
> commented out?
>
> Have you checked if dovecot is listening on 143?
>
>
> On 21/01/2025 17:50, Marco Fioretti via dovecot wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I was just tasked with rebuilding from scratch the mail server of an NGO,
> > on a brand new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VPS.
> >
> > I have copied the whole dovecot configuration to the new server, and now
> am
> > stuck because:
> >
> > - dovecot IS running, dovecot service status shows no errors, but:
> >
> > - if I try to connect with mutt from my desktop I get "connection
> refused"
> >
> > - the ufw firewall does allow imap/imaps connections, and there are no
> > errors in its log
> >
> > - even "telnet localhost 143" fails:
> > Trying ::1...
> > Connection failed: Connection refused
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > - I see no related errors in /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/syslog.
> >
> >
> > output of dovecot -n is pasted below, I only changed the actual domain
> name
> > to "example.com"
> >
> > TIA for any pointer, I really need to get this server back online as soon
> > as possible...
> >
> > Marco
> >
> > # 2.3.21 (47349e2482): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21 (f6cd4b8e)
> > doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with:
> doveconf
> > -Pn > dovecot-new.conf
> > doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf:9:
> > ssl_dh_parameters_length is no longer needed
> > # OS: Linux 6.8.0-51-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ext4
> > # Hostname: example.com
> > auth_debug = yes
> > auth_verbose = yes
> > auth_verbose_passwords = plain
> > mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/mymail_storage/base/
> > mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> > passdb {
> > args = /etc/imap.v_users
> > driver = passwd-file
> > }
> > passdb {
> > driver = pam
> > }
> > service auth {
> > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
> > group = postfix
> > mode = 0660
> > user = postfix
> > }
> > }
> > service imap-login {
> > inet_listener imap {
> > port = 0
> > }
> > }
> > ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
> > ssl_cipher_list = ALL
> > ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> > ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
> > userdb {
> > args = /etc/imap.v_users
> > driver = passwd-file
> > }
> > userdb {
> > driver = passwd
> > }
> > verbose_ssl = yes
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