[clug] Pop3 mail not working after dovecot update

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Tue Jun 24 09:05:24 GMT 2008


Paul Wilson wrote:
> To be honest this has me stumped
> 
> Dovecot has port 110 open but I can't connect, I can't see errors or 
> connection problems in the /var/log/maillog
> 
> 
> 
> # netstat -tulpn | grep dove
> tcp        0      0 :::993                      
> :::*                        LISTEN      12739/dovecot
> tcp        0      0 :::995                      
> :::*                        LISTEN      12739/dovecot
> tcp        0      0 :::110                      
> :::*                        LISTEN      12739/dovecot
> tcp        0      0 :::143                      
> :::*                        LISTEN      12739/dovecot

I think his output implies that you're only listening on the IPV6 protocols.

I'm not even sure how you'd do that but it's prolly related to your dovecot config file. 
You need to use "*" not "[::]" according to the wiki.

Brett


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