Jon, Yes I am running courier, but the problem turned out to be unrelated to the MAXPERIP setting. I was finally able to see what was happening via iptables logging to the screen (I couldn't get it to log this particular drop to a file for some reason) and fixed the issue by re-writing my firewall including the following line
"$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT" Now if I could just easily get iptables to log dropped packets to it's own file, rather than kern.log/messages/syslog I'd be a happy camper. -Jesse On 11/8/05, Jonathan Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Tue, November 8, 2005 12:19, J. Chieppa wrote: > > My understanding of iptables was it read top to bottom and you could > > either specify a default policy or the $iptables -A INPUT -j drop at the > > last line. To see if it would make any difference I removed the last line > > and instead specified a default policy of drop for all incoming packets > > then left the rest. I still get the same error message trying to log into > > squirrelmail. > > I forgot to ask this, but what IMAP server? Is it courier by any chance? > What distribution are you using? Have you tried shorewall for iptables > configuration? Makes life a little easier I've found. > > If you /are/ using courier, try finding your imapd file, and checking your > MAXPERIP setting, and bumping it up. If I remember correctly, the default > is down at 4, and if your iptables policy is causing some kind of "lock", > or delay in closing, on the connection which keeps it open, any further > connection attempts might cause you problems. > > - -- > Jonathan Angliss > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkNxeQ4ACgkQK4PoFPj9H3PXpgCdFsGAmD4EsaK1HRENQjf3MeaC > uzEAnRKoJvI70jDxgxIAQ9W7al0R+/iX > =RZyA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
