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ViAdCk

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Hello:

On one of our servers squirrelmail is not working and gives the following error: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server.

The messages log gives the following error: Sep 18 12:06:28 servidor xinetd[872]: libwrap refused connection to imap (libwrap=imapd) from 127.0.0.1

Any thoughts?

Regards
 
On another post I just read (http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17818) it mentions that you may have to restart the dovecot service (assumiing that you have a new install of dovecot).

If it's not Dovecot, then you should give some more information such as did squirrelmail work before and if so, what did you change. Or did you do a fresh install?
 
Hi:

Dovecot is not installed on this system. Squirrelmail was working correctly but all of a sudden it stopped working. Nothing has been touched on that server for the last weeks/months.

Regards,
 
we are having the same problem here...just started happening recently. This is the old imap setup (aka not dovecot)
 
Hi guys,

how annoying that you can trace the cause. Did you have a look at all the (potentially) relevant log files, right after you get a failure message? Like the exim logs, messages log, httpd log?

Try to trace the steps the program would take to work - eg. squirrel talks to apache then to the program that handles IMAP (I use dovecot, don't remember what was used before), that checks your user's mailbox and the output is sent out again.

To restart exim, try restarting MailScanner (if you use it). Check that the firewall doesn't interfere (shouldn't, since it is local) and that there is no other service listening on the port that squirrel tries to connect to locally...

Hope this gives some starting points!

Good luck,

Harro
 
On systems using mbox, it may be that the program is timing out because of long files. Converting to Dovecot/Maildir may very well help.

Jeff
 
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