Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
David G. Miller wrote:
Why should this differ from what you'd say about dovecot?
When I set up dovecot I had to edit /etc/dovecot.conf before it worked:
diff dovecot.conf dovecot.conf.centos 14c14
< protocols = imap imaps pop3
#protocols = imap imaps
21,22c21,22 < imap_listen = 192.168.255.254:143 < pop3_listen = 192.168.255.254:110
I don't get it. I do 'yum install dovecot' and 'service dovecot start' and it answers on pop3/pop3s/imap/imaps on my network interface. Is that the current fedora version you are describing?
I'm running dovecot under CentOS 4.4. I like more stability and less volatility for my server than FC provides. The "customization" is required since I only want dovecot to listen for IMAP/POP connections on my internal LAN. Yes, these ports are blocked on my external NIC but I like the idea that dovecot doesn't accept connections from an external address. I also vaguely remember that it complained for some reason I didn't specify just the internal network. Unfortunately, that was long enough ago that I don't recall the exact complaint.
Dovecot on my server is:
[root@fraud etc]# rpm -q dovecot dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4
It looks like 1.1 is available for FC6. From "yum info dovecot":
Available Packages Name : dovecot Arch : i386 Version: 1.0 Release: 1.1.rc15.fc6 Size : 1.5 M Repo : updates Summary: Dovecot Secure imap server
Cheers, Dave