| brianmcgee |
11-14-2007 10:46 AM |
dovecot & RHEL5 U1 installation problem
I want to install dovecot as an imap server on RHEL5 U1.
Code:
Linux ***** 2.6.18-52.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 15:26:44 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I followed the same steps (certainly there are slight differences) as I installed dovecot on a Fedora test machine.
Code:
# yum install dovecot
# /usr/share/doc/dovecot-1.0/examples/mkcert.sh
Most important setting in /etc/dovecot.conf:
Code:
protocols= imap, imaps
While my Fedora machine works, the RHEL5 U1 dovecot setup does not:
Code:
# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
*hangs*
Here I should be greeted with:
Code:
$ telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to server1.example.com (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot ready
A test with mutt also fails (Waiting forever for login):
Code:
# mutt -f imap://localhost:143
Nmap shows, that the ports are open:
Code:
# nmap localhost
Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2007-11-14 17:45 CET
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1):
Not shown: 1673 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
111/tcp open rpcbind
143/tcp open imap
631/tcp open ipp
632/tcp open unknown
993/tcp open imaps
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.128 seconds
Checking with fuser for using port 143 shows the PID of a running dovecot...
Code:
# rpm -qa dovecot
dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5
# rpm -qa openssl
openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.el5
Firewall & SELinux are disabled. Any idea what is going wrong? The logs /var/log/maillog respectively /var/log/messages show nothing. |
