On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:06 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Mark C. Allman wrote: > > > Check /var/log/messages to see if anything is logged. The behavior of > > telnet sounds like the behavior of openssl. It's probably not the > > firewall, but you could just about rule it out by shutting down the > > firewall for a minute, test (e.g., telnet), and then starting it again. > > Thanks for your response. > > I never seem to get any messages about dovecot in /var/log/messages . > I opened a log-file /var/log/dovecot to get dovecot debug messages, > but this doesn't get much either. > Just a message when dovecot starts of finishes. > > I tried closing the firewall with "shorewall clear" > but this didn't have any effect. Did you verify with iptables -L that things were really opened up? Andy
