Rumor has it that Jon Reynolds said:
> Thanks for the reply. What I needed to do was use my real IP
> address
> in imapd instead of the loopback address and all is well. I did get
> the answer from the qmail list from someone running the same setup
> as I. You were right that I had the loopback address in my rcpt file
> so I now have my real IP in there.
Glad it worked out... but you should probably spend the time to make
sure you understand why.
qmail's rcpthosts and locals use domain names; tcpserver's rules work
from IP addresses and/or domain names. When you bind a service to a
particular IP address -- like 127.0.0.1 -- all of the services it
talks to must be willing to accept requests from that explicit
address; services that rely on DNS or use domain names must be able to
resolve names and IP's. In this regard, the loopback address and the
machine's real IP address do not resolve to the same thing.
I suggested that you change the IP address in imapd because it was
probably the easiest solution without knowing what your entire qmail
configuration looked like. However, you could have potentially gotten
the same result by configuring qmail to recognize 127.0.0.1 and/or
localhost in your qmail setup.
This is one of the reasons I never bind anything to the loopback
address... it can cause behavior that's difficult to track down.
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