Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:34:04
Message-Id: 1220920439.15782.33.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird by kashani
1 On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:49 -0700, kashani wrote:
2 > Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > >> dovecot doesn't seem to have a log. How do I turn on logging for
4 > >> dovecot?
5 >
6 > I'd suspect it's either logging to /var/log/mail* or /var/log/messages
7 > Have you checked both?
8 >
9 > > I forgot:
10 > >
11 > > camille log # netstat -ptln
12 > > Active Internet connections (only servers)
13 > > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address
14 > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:*
15 > > LISTEN 4311/dovecot
16 >
17 > And are you connecting via IMAP in your clients, the server addresses
18 > are correct, you can telnet to your mail server on port 143, etc?
19 >
20 > kashani
21 >
22 >
23
24 I checked both /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/messages, yes
25
26 And I am connecting via IMAP.
27
28 My public IP address is 70.234.122.254
29
30 michael@camille ~ $ telnet 127.0.0.1 143
31 Trying 127.0.0.1...
32 Connected to 127.0.0.1.
33 Escape character is '^]'.
34 * OK Dovecot ready.
35 ^]
36
37 telnet> quit
38 Connection closed.
39 michael@camille ~ $ telnet 70.254.122.254 143
40 Trying 70.254.122.254...
41 telnet: connect to address 70.254.122.254: Connection refused

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net>