Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost. after doing upgrade

[jaya_pc87]

i did a custom build to update my system and there goes my mail server @_@

I tried login to my mail using squirrelmail and round cube both gives me this error

Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
:

and Connection to Imap refused

so tried to connect to dovecot and it can connect just fine


telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot DA ready.

i tried restarting exim and dovecot too

and my local host record is also fine

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

i tried ./build dovecot
after browsing all over the forum

i saw a thread give a to ./build todovecot


and its still the same

what i did was just issue an update thats all

thx

[nobaloney]

Not enough information to test; please show us an example site that doesn't work.

Jeff

[jaya_pc87]

Not enough information to test; please show us an example site that doesn't work.

Jeff



Here we go one example

http://itsociety.net/squirrelmail

or

http://itsociety.net/roundcube

[nobaloney]

Still not information; can you supply a sample mailbox to try?

You can delete it afterwards.

Also post the name and IP# of the server in question.

I'm not sure what we can find out, but so far we can't find out anything.

Jeff

[jaya_pc87]

Still not information; can you supply a sample mailbox to try?

You can delete it afterwards.

Also post the name and IP# of the server in question.

I'm not sure what we can find out, but so far we can't find out anything.

Jeff


Username: test@itsociety.net
Password: test
Pop3 Server: mail.itsociety.net
Smtp Server: mail.itsociety.net

202.190.70.156

[nobaloney]

You can delete the test mailbox.

Your two links return an imap error. Mail2Web.com (http://mail2web.com/) works but I don't know if it uses IMAP or POP3 (it probably uses POP3).

I _can_ log into your imap server from my desktop system:

[jlasman@of1 ~]$ telnet itsociety.net 143
Trying 202.190.70.156...
Connected to itsociety.net (202.190.70.156).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot DA ready.
it appears that for some reason your imap server isn't listening on localhost. You should check your dovecot configuration and also your firewalls.

I can't think of anything else it could be.

Jeff

[jaya_pc87]

You can delete the test mailbox.

Your two links return an imap error. Mail2Web.com (http://mail2web.com/) works but I don't know if it uses IMAP or POP3 (it probably uses POP3).

I _can_ log into your imap server from my desktop system:

[jlasman@of1 ~]$ telnet itsociety.net 143
Trying 202.190.70.156...
Connected to itsociety.net (202.190.70.156).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot DA ready.
it appears that for some reason your imap server isn't listening on localhost. You should check your dovecot configuration and also your firewalls.

I can't think of anything else it could be.

Jeff


yes i have triple checked my firewall as i got other services all running fine too

i am not sure about dovecot settings

i can establish connection within localhost to port 143 its working :)

is it something to do with each of my mail client setup? or only dovecot pelase guide me on this

[scsi]

Could it be a php imap problem? If it is not a firewall problem I think it would have something to do with php.

[jaya_pc87]

I am still dumbfounded sigh

merry christmas everyone

[cpl.vadera]

I know this is a fairly old thread but i have exact same problem.

I have added the following line to my dovecot.conf file

listen = *

however this has not helped.

any suggestions???

Cpl.Vadera