On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:59 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 24 January 2008 16:38:49 Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 16:30 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
this is what I was responding to...
# telnet localhost 110 .. # telnet localhost 143 ..
Both these produce ''Temporary failure in name resolution'.
so it seemed obvious that at some point, you had a defective /etc/hosts because if dovecot were not running, that wouldn't be the message. For example, this is what happens when I do this from a CentOS 5 server that isn't running POP3/IMAP server...
# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
You know how difficult it is to try to remember the exact sequence of events, once it's over, but yes - I got that as well, a little later. Right now I can't remember what happened in between.
Meanwhile, although dovecot is now running, all is not well. I posted the details to the dovecot list, where I was told that 1.0.rc15 is old, and I should upgrade to 1.0.10, the latest stable release. I'm doing yum updates, so I presume that if this package is available for CentOS I would have to look for a 'testing' repository. Any advice there?
---- no
http://centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=3
there may be a 3rd party repo that has a more recent build available but I am not aware of such.
FWIW, I would recommend using cyrus-imapd for an IMAP server with a lot more features (albeit at a little greater complexity)
Craig