[CentOS] Could not connect to host box.domain.tld

Thu Jan 24 19:22:19 UTC 2008
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>

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?
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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