[clug] Pop3 mail not working after dovecot update

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Tue Jun 24 10:16:11 GMT 2008


Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 07:05:24PM +1000, Brett Worth wrote:
>>> tcp        0      0 :::143                      
>>> :::*                        LISTEN      12739/dovecot
>> I think his output implies that you're only listening on the IPV6 protocols.
> 
> That's not it. Any program opening an IPV6 socket for listening can
> automatically receive IPV4 connections on the same socket.

My reasoning was that sshd on my system is listening on both:

dart:~ # netstat -tulpn | grep :22
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*      LISTEN     2837/sshd
tcp        0      0 :::22                   :::*           LISTEN     2837/sshd

Anyway I'm happy to be wrong.

Brett


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