This is my first attempt at creating a mail server. I'm running postfix and
dovecot on Fedora 7. So far the process has been very
enlightening. I currently have the server able to send and receive messages for
a domain from the server machine itself. In
addition, I can SMTP from any client set up on the LAN by logging in. However,
I cannot retrieve messages from remote clients on
the LAN. Thunderbird reads "Connected to" {servername} across the
bottom, then times out. I tried to telnet to port 110 on the
server, and I no response, just hangs. Not sure where the problem lies. Thanks
for any assistance.
here's the output of dovecot -n:
# 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
Randall Donaldson
Information Technology
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On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:59 -0600, Randall Donaldson wrote:> This is my first attempt at creating a mail server. I'm running postfix and dovecot on Fedora 7. So far the process has been very > enlightening. I currently have the server able to send and receive messages for a domain from the server machine itself. In > addition, I can SMTP from any client set up on the LAN by logging in. However, I cannot retrieve messages from remote clients on > the LAN. Thunderbird reads "Connected to" {servername} across the bottom, then times out. I tried to telnet to port 110 on the > server, and I no response, just hangs. Not sure where the problem lies. Thanks for any assistance.Stop Dovecot and try telnetting to port 110 again. Does it still hang? If so, change your firewall settings. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20071120/a7de281d/attachment-0002.bin>
Okay. It was my iptables. Somehow missed this. Everything works great now. -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:45 PM To: Randall Donaldson Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Just getting started On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:59 -0600, Randall Donaldson wrote:> This is my first attempt at creating a mail server. I'm running > postfix and dovecot on Fedora 7. So far the process has been very > enlightening. I currently have the server able to send and receive > messages for a domain from the server machine itself. In addition, I > can SMTP from any client set up on the LAN by logging in. However, I cannot retrieve messages from remote clients on the LAN.Thunderbird reads "Connected to" {servername} across the bottom, then times out. I tried to telnet to port 110 on the server, and I no response, just hangs. Not sure where the problem lies. Thanks for any assistance. Stop Dovecot and try telnetting to port 110 again. Does it still hang? If so, change your firewall settings.