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Date:  Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:17 -0900
From:  Jim Dory <jdory (at mark) nomealaska.org>
Subject:  [coba-e:11330] Re: email on new server not working - maybe pop3
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <47505FDD.9030300 (at mark) nomealaska.org>
In-Reply-To:  <20071130140254.M42259 (at mark) nomealaska.org>
References:  <20071130134927.M30893 (at mark) nomealaska.org> <20071130140254.M42259 (at mark) nomealaska.org>
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Yet more info:

As I've researched this I now suspect dovecot. I tried to stop it via 
/etc/init.d/dovecot stop and it would fail. I tried start and :
"Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen (110) failed: Address already in 
use" which I thought peculiar because 110 is pop.

I mv'd /etc/dovecot.conf to /etc/dovecot.conf-latest and cp'd 
/etc/dovecot.conf.rpmsave to /etc/dovecot.conf and then when starting 
dovecot it worked.
When trying to pop3 my email from my client, I got a plain text 
authentication error message. I went into my client account setup and 
choose server settings "use TLS if available" and now it seems to work. 
Had to click through a certificate and then got an error saying 
something about the machine hostname being different than the vsite - 
clicked ok and it works.

But obviously just a workaround - need to fix the problem. Still 
researching and may find it in the dovecot.conf file but help muchly 
appreciated.

cheers, JD

James Dory wrote:
> More info as I try to troubleshoot this: 
> While tailing maillog I noticed that messages sent had the "stat=queued" set.
> I went into the web GUI and under email services, unchecked the "Enable SMTP
> Server", saved, rechecked it and saved, and then maillog showed a flurry of
> sending the queued messages. And now they seem to be sending fine. Still can't
> connect via pop3.  /jd
>
>
>
>
>
> Yesterday I put our new server into service and everything seemed to go fairly
> well. Email was working fine. I did a major yum update (162 pkgs) and things
> still seemed to run fine after the update. This morning when trying to connect
> with thunderbird email clients, I get a "connection refused". Logging in via
> webmail works. I can send email via my client but not sure if they are getting
> through.
>
> Watching /var/log/maillog I'm not seeing in pop3 checkins.
>
> I did change the host-domain name on the server admin GUI late in the day.
>
> I did restart sendmail to no effect and in the web admin GUI I unchecked
> "enable pop" saved, and rechecked/saved it.
>
> Help?
>
> --
> Jim Dory
> Engineering
> City of Nome
> PO Box 281
> 102 Division St.
> Nome, AK 99762
> 907.443.6604
>
> http://www.nomealaska.org
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>
> --
> Jim Dory
> Engineering
> City of Nome
> PO Box 281
> 102 Division St.
> Nome, AK 99762
> 907.443.6604
>
> http://www.nomealaska.org
>
>
>   


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Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604

http://www.nomealaska.org


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