Dovecot not fetching my mail?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 27 February 2006 13:38, 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.
>
When you telnetted into port 143 did you see the message 'Dovecot ready'?  If 
not, start it from a root console - 'dovecot start' - and if that cures the 
problem set it to start at boot in future.

Anne
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