Re: dovecot Outlook failure

[Rick Stevens <ricks nerd com>]

Karl Pearson wrote:
> I'm in a client office, and they use Outlook. I installed a new server
> after theirs was hacked into from China (story for another time). I've
> installed Fedora 8 and everything is working, except dovecot from inside
> the network (it's not going to work from outside anymore :) ).
>
> If I sit at an XP PC and telnet 10.0.0.240 110 it just hangs for awhile,
> then times out and ends up back at a DOS prompt. Same for 143 (IMAP).
>
> I can telnet 10.0.0.240 25 and send email all day long.
>
> I setup an Evolution account for both POP3 and IMAP on the server and it
> works fine.
>
> I have configured 2 other PCs with Fedora 8 in the last 2 months and
> they both work fine. What am I missing here?

Uh, really dumb question, but did you "chkconfig dovecot on" to make
sure it starts on boot?  Did you start it via "service dovecot start"?
Does "netstat -lpn" show dovecot listening on ports 110 and 143?
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