[CentOS] C6.7 evolution to cyrus imap(s) fails

[Dr J Austin]

> My dns lookup (against either of the hosteurope.com nameservers
> listed for jaa.org.uk) is showing the following for the maui FQDN.
> 
>    maui.jaa.org.uk.	14400	IN	A	213.152.52.233
> 
> and I'm getting:
> 
>   5.29.197.148.in-addr.arpa. 80184 IN	PTR	adarwash1.ee.port.ac.uk
> 
> for the rDNS of 148.197.29.5.
> 
> As you can see from the netstat output, cyrus is listening (on all
> interfaces), but only on ipv6. It doesn't appear to be listening on
> any interface on ipv4. You do have portreserve "holding" the IMAP
> ipv4 ports. It's possible that it's not releasing them to cyrus. You
> may want to look at the man page for that application, and see that
> it knows about cyrus (mine is only set up to "hold" things for cups).
> 
> I would also suggest looking at your yum.log to see if cyrus was
> updated with the .6->.7 update. If so, look for "rpmnew" or "rpmold"
> config files. In my experience it is uncommon for updates to move
> current configs out, unless they are incompatible with a new release
> (and when they do you should find an "rpmold"). 
> 
> I've never touched cyrus, so can't be of much help trying to
> (re-)configure it (but I'd look at portreserve first).
> 
> 
Richard - you were right!

It was portreserve !

Many thanks for the advice

John