From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPgXW-0006TA-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 19:48:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 614A31C076; Thu, 26 May 2011 19:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns1.bonedaddy.net (ns1.bonedaddy.net [70.91.141.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0C51C076 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 19:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns1.bonedaddy.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.bonedaddy.net (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4QJDYSx010952 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 15:13:34 -0400 Received: (from tgoodman@localhost) by ns1.bonedaddy.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p4QJDYRf010951 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 15:13:34 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: ns1.bonedaddy.net: tgoodman set sender to tsg@bonedaddy.net using -f Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:13:34 -0400 From: Todd Goodman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need dovecot configuration help Message-ID: <20110526191334.GM20163@ns1.bonedaddy.net> References: <4DDEA458.1070807@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DDEA458.1070807@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e2c5af2e523fb14c0d293065d01f0ffc * Michael Sullivan [110526 14:40]: > A couple of days ago I applied via etc-update a new init script and conf > file for dovecot. Now I cannot get local LAN mail from it. I was > previously able to. My current dovecot version info is: > > carter ~ # emerge -pv dovecot > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] net-mail/dovecot-2.0.11 USE="berkdb bzip2 doc ipv6 ldap > maildir mysql pam ssl zlib -caps -cydir -kerberos -managesieve -mbox > -mdbox -postgres -sdbox -sieve -sqlite -suid -vpopmail" 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > > * IMPORTANT: 3 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news to read news items. > > The /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file is as such: [..] > #listen = *, :: What's the exact problem you're having? No response? Error response from dovecot? Do you see dovecot listening? Do a 'netstat -a -t | egrep imap' and see if there's any output. If it's not listening on *:imap (say on 127.0.0.1:imap for example) then you probably want the 'listen = *' in your config file. Is dovecot complaining in the logs? When you emerge a new dovecot you need to restart it (/etc/init.d/dovecot restart) or else you'll get errors with the client/server communication as well. Todd