On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 16:30 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
That looks a bit odd. Apart from that, I can't see anything relevant.
the first 4 lines of /etc/hosts should look like this and apparently, yours doesn't...
# head -n 4 /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
Fix this first
They do look exactly like that :-)
Two minutes ago the problem was solved. Sheer stupidity. I had forgotten to chkconfig on. Dovecot is now running and it looks as though I can now continue with preparing the account to take over the work.
Thanks to all who tried to help.
---- glad you fixed it
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
Craig