Consistency
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Mon Mar 5 22:58:46 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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 at 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
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