----- Original Message ----- From: <shrek-m@xxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: Re: FC2 Dovecot help? > >The dovecot.conf file implies it will probably work "right out of the box". > >When I try to connect to the pop server, I get an immediate disconnection. > >Are many of you using dovecot, and did you have to configure anything in > >dovecot.conf or elsewhere to get it to work? Any changes to Postfix? (I > >had working pop and imap (uw) in FC1 before the upgrade and change to > >dovecot.) > > > > not tested, > > is an other service listening on :110 ? > > # lsof -Pi :110 > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME > xinetd 3273 root 6u IPv4 3500 TCP *:110 (LISTEN) I got no output to this (apparently nothing else listening). > disable pop3, imap in xinetd > > # chkconfig ipop3 --list > ipop3 Ein Again, nothing returned - ipop is not running. > # chkconfig ipop3 off Thus no need to do this - I did it anyway - not found. > > stop cyrus-imap or other services cyrus-imap was stopped already. What else might there be to stop that applies? > start dovecot > check var/log/messages Dovecot startup successful. > probably you must enable pop3 in /etc/dovecot.conf > afair > protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s The above got me close - After I uncommented the protocols, I could connect, but not login. Here's the rest of the ANSWER: (Note - The conf file says "Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment any of the lines. Exception to this are paths....") HOWEVER, I had to uncomment several lines as follows: 1. Uncomment protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s 2. Uncomment login = imap (if not already - I can't remember if it was default-uncommented or I did it.) 3. Uncomment login - pop3 Now imap and pop are working - THANKS to everyone that helped!! Squirrelmail was a little "squirrely" in that I had to recreate some of my folders for some users, but the mail is all there. Again thanks very much for the help. Helping newbies helps spread the utility and fun of Linux! John Fleming Indiana
