On 03/27/2012 04:52 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
I'm trying to set up dovecot on a fresh installation of Fedora 16. This is an obvious problem:
$ telnet rail 143 Trying 10.0.0.21... telnet: connect to address 10.0.0.21: Connection refused
localhost works:
$ telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE
STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready.
After first trying to permit traffic on port 143 in the firewall configuration, I've now disabled it altogether:
$ systemctl status iptables.service iptables.service - IPv4 firewall with iptables Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead) start condition failed at Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:25:13 -0500; 13 years and 0 months ago CGroup: name=systemd:/system/iptables.service $ systemctl status ip6tables.service ip6tables.service - IPv6 firewall with ip6tables Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ip6tables.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead) start condition failed at Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:25:13 -0500; 13 years and 0 months ago CGroup: name=systemd:/system/ip6tables.service
? yet I still get "connection refused" as above.
If not the firewall, what's the culprit here?
I've not set up dovecot.... But, at times default configuration for some services bind only to the localhost. The default configuration for sendmail is an example....
What do you get when from "netstat -nap | grep 143"?