On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 18:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > My public IP address is 70.234.122.254 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet 127.0.0.1 143 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > * OK Dovecot ready. > > ^] > > > > telnet> quit > > Connection closed. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet 70.254.122.254 143 > > Trying 70.254.122.254... > > telnet: connect to address 70.254.122.254: Connection refused > > Are you port forwarding port 143 through your NAT if you're using NAT? > Are you allowing imap in your firewall rules? > > I'd also try the suggesting of changing to listen = * suggested here. > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Dovecot#Configure > > kashani >
>From nmap: camille dovecot # nmap -T Aggressive -A -v 70.234.122.254 Starting Nmap 4.68 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2008-09-08 20:33 CDT Initiating Ping Scan at 20:33 Scanning 70.234.122.254 [2 ports] Completed Ping Scan at 20:33, 0.03s elapsed (1 total hosts) Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 20:33 Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 20:33, 0.25s elapsed Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 20:33 Scanning adsl-70-234-122-254.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (70.234.122.254) [1715 ports] Discovered open port 22/tcp on 70.234.122.254 Discovered open port 25/tcp on 70.234.122.254 Discovered open port 80/tcp on 70.234.122.254 Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 20:33, 3.02s elapsed (1715 total ports) Initiating Service scan at 20:33 Scanning 3 services on adsl-70-234-122-254.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (70.234.122.254) Completed Service scan at 20:33, 6.17s elapsed (3 services on 1 host) Initiating OS detection (try #1) against adsl-70-234-122-254.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (70.234.122.254) Retrying OS detection (try #2) against adsl-70-234-122-254.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (70.234.122.254) Initiating Traceroute at 20:33 70.234.122.254: guessing hop distance at 1 Completed Traceroute at 20:33, 0.01s elapsed Host adsl-70-234-122-254.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (70.234.122.254) appears to be up ... good. Interesting ports on adsl-70-234-122-254.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (70.234.122.254): Not shown: 1708 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 20/tcp filtered ftp-data 21/tcp filtered ftp 22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 4.7 (protocol 2.0) 25/tcp open smtp Exim smtpd 4.69 80/tcp open http Apache httpd 143/tcp filtered imap 443/tcp filtered https No OS matches for host TCP Sequence Prediction: Difficulty=199 (Good luck!) IP ID Sequence Generation: All zeros Service Info: Host: camille.espersunited.com TRACEROUTE (using port 22/tcp) HOP RTT ADDRESS 1 2.47 adsl-70-234-122-254.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (70.234.122.254) Read data files from: /usr/share/nmap OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 14.126 seconds Raw packets sent: 1794 (82.336KB) | Rcvd: 1767 (81.820KB) Also, my dovecot.conf has changed somewhat over the course of the evening. Here's the current version: camille dovecot # cat dovecot.conf | sed /#/d protocols = imap imaps listen = [::] disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir protocol imap { listen = * } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { postmaster_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "*" } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { }