Dovecot not fetching my mail?

[Paul Howarth]

Ryno Burger wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Have a strange problem here...
> 
> I have upgraded to FC5 test this morning. I have backed up my virtual 
> servers via virtualmin / webmin. After the new install of my FC5 test 
> system I restored my virtual servers, made changes to Postfix to listen 
> to a non default port (25) for mail. My mail gets delivered to the 
> correct user on my server and sit there to be fetched. I started up 
> dovecot and made sure that it listens to all sources for incoming 
> connection. I made sure by telnet into my port 143 and 110, all good. I 
> configured my email client and ran the "test settings" option, all good. 
> But it simply doesn't download the email from the server, while I know 
> for a fact there is about 10 email in my mail folder on the server.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.

You do know that the FC5 doevcot has major changes in the configuration 
file format?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot

If that's not the issue, you'll probably be better off asking on 
fedora-test-list.

Paul.