Re: [tlug] mailer not connecting to localhost

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:50:55 +0900, Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Before the upgrade, all was working fine, but now when I try to retrieve
> > the mail, Icedove reports  "Could not connect to server localhost: the
> > connection was refused".
>
> Check with netstat to see if anything is indeed listening to port 110 on
> your box. Then check your firewall rules.

As always, thanks Godwin.

While I was trying to solve this problem, I kept running into one little 
broken thing after another in Sid/Unstable (as was always the case in 
the past), so I just gave up and restored Lenny with Partimage.

After resetting the system and trying TBird/Icedove again, I noticed a 
difference in the process of creation of a new account in the older and 
newer versions of Icedove. In the older version (1.5x) when you set up a 
new mail account, one of the options is a Unix/Movemail account, and 
when this option is used, everything works automatically. In the newer 
version of Icedove in Sid (probably TBird 2.0, but I didn't think to 
check) where I was having this problem, that option didn't exist in the 
new account setup--which is a little scary, because apparently there 
won't be a way to set this up when the time comes to move to 2.0.

I had originally done this upgrade to get the uim package which was 
dependency-deficient for Lenny, but I think I'll just wait for it for 
the time being.

Chuck



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