Cyrus connection problem

Wouter van Marle wouter at squirrel-systems.com
Tue Jul 19 03:56:55 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:16 +0200, Ingo Freund wrote:
> Wouter van Marle wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Sorry for probably asking again, but I can not read the archives!
> > Searching goes, just the reading of individual messages doesn't work.
> > Webmaster, please check on this.
> > 
> > Anyway here my question.
> > I've installed cyrus-imapd on Mandrake 10.2, and now have connection
> > problems.
> > Locally (connecting through localhost) it goes fine: connect to imapd on
> > normal imap, no problem.
> > Over the network it goes wrong. I've a local network, and when
> > connecting from my laptop to imapd on 192.168.1.1 I can not connect.
> > Telnet to that box on imap and imaps ports give a "connection refused".
> > Syslog shows "imapd refused connection from ..." with the IP address of
> > my laptop. The ports are opened in my firewall, with firewall disabled I
> > get exactly the same errors.
> > 
> > Please advice!
> > 
> > Installed software (from Mandrake rpm): 
> > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-7mdk
> > cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.12-7mdk
> > 
> > Wouter.
> > 
> > 
> did you allow imaps in /etc/hosts.allow?
> there should be some lines concerning imap like
> 
> # imap only localhost
> imap:   127.0.0.0/8
> # secure mail support for everywhere
> imaps:  0.0.0.0/0

hosts.allow was empty (my webserver works fine without any entry there
though!), after setting the settings as you suggest nothing changed.

> if this doesn't help
> what is the answer to " netstat -ln | grep -e '993\|143' " ?
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:993             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::993                  :::*
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::143                  :::*
LISTEN

Looks OK to me... services are up and listening.

Wouter.

> Ingo.
> 
> 

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