Found the problem. it was in dovecot.conf file. Avram On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Avram Aumick wrote: > I am not sure exactly what is the problem. I have tried as best as I can > to trace the problem which occurred after installing fc2 (I did a new > install rather than an upgrade). > > Whenever I try to run evolution, sylpheed, or squirrelmail and the account > that it is trying to connect to is an imap account (I only have them > connected to that type of an account), I get the message "IMAP server > mail.mydomain.org, could not connect to mail.mydomain.org (port 143) > connection refused." > > In my iptables it is suppose to accept port 143 and in the hosts.allow > file I have it set to accept. I do not get any errors in my message file. > > I do get the message when I run "service dovecot status", "dovecot dead > but subsys locked". this concerns me but I am not sure why it does that. > > What am I missing? what should I check? This is the first time I am using > dovecot so I don't know if this is the answer. > > One more thing. I can retrieve email using kmail, but it does not use > imap, just uses the /var/spool/mail/username. > > Avram > > ----------- > You know you're getting old when you talk about what > you've done, rather than what you're going to do. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ----------- You know you're getting old when you talk about what you've done, rather than what you're going to do.