dovecot - Jun 2015 - Testin new installation

Look at /etc/hosts ::1 is the ipv6 version of localhost.?




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From Steve Matzura <number6 at noisynotes.com> 
Date: 06/13/2015  6:00 AM  (GMT-06:00) 
To dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> 
Subject Testin new installation 
 
The first place I went to for test advice and planning recommendations
was http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestInstallation - The very first test
failed. Doc says:

Next check that Dovecot is listening for connections: 

# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.

If you got "connection refused", make sure that Dovecot is configured
to serve the imap protocol and listening on the expected
interfaces/addresses. The
simplest way to do that would be using 
doveconf(1):

# doveconf protocols listen
protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve
listen = *, ::

If the protocols setting shouldn't contain imap so add it. Also make
sure, that relevant !include or !try_include configuration lines are
not commented.

*** End doc extract ***

All of the above specified settings are correct. Yet, when I telnet
localhost 143, I get:

Trying ::1... # this is certainly suspect
Escape character is '^['.
Connection closed by foreign host.

On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:36:21 -0600, you wrote:
>Look at /etc/hosts ::1 is the ipv6 version of localhost.?
Right. I actually knew that. So why does that take precedence for the
definition of localhost even though it's not the first line in the
file?

On 06/13/2015 01:41 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:36:21 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> Look at /etc/hosts ::1 is the ipv6 version of localhost.
> Right. I actually knew that. So why does that take precedence for the
> definition of localhost even though it's not the first line in the
> file?
IPv6 is preferred when available.
See man 5 gai.conf