Could not open connection to the host, on port 143

Cecilio Marín cmarin at essiprojects.com
Wed Nov 30 17:09:46 UTC 2005


is firewall enabled? To see it:  iptables -L

if is it, you can disable it with:   service iptables stop

and disable start at boot:   chkconfig iptables off

Atte.
Cecilio Marin


Nagarjuna Rao Cherukuri escribió:

>Another trivial question. I am trying to check whether my email server
>allows connections to imap services. So, I tried the following
>
>
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>C:\Documents and Settings\nagarjuna_cherukuri>telnet hydlmuk2 143
>
>Connecting To hydlmuk2...Could not open connection to the host, on port
>143: Con
>
>nect failed
>
>
>
>I have installed email server on different box 2 weeks back and it
>worked fine there. But, it is not working working with new box. I tried
>disabling firewall by running "service iptables stop" and "chkconfig
>ipchains off". Still, I am not able to telnet to this box at port 143.
>Can anybody tell me if I am missing something here?
>
>
>
>Yes, imap service is up and running.
>
>
>
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