Re: dovecot imapd on network
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:56:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Camaleón put forth on 11/3/2010 2:37 PM:
>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:37:12 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>
>>> I have dovecot imapd setup & working on my Lenny box, and I have a
>>> local user account setup in thunderbird & have IMAP folders. I am
>>> trying to setup my laptop to that IMAP account working, but it is
>>> refusing connections...
>>> do I need to do something to iptables? or am I missing something
>>> else..
>>
>> I fairly doubt your iptables policy is so "hard" that blocks lan
>> connections :-?
>>
>> Can you telnet the local imap server from your laptop?
>>
>> telnet 192.168.0.1 143
>
>
> The Debian Lenny Dovecot 1.0.15 dovecot.conf disables plain text login
> by default as a security measure.
(...)
We are testing "connectivity" here not authentication mechanisms so I'd
expect Dovecot's welcome message even with plaint text login disable ;-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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