squirel/atmail dont work?

[whyzex]

Hey everyone,

Im having a strange problem, I didnt use squirelmail/atmail untill today for about 3 months, and ive messed around with the "custombuild" feature quite alot..

Anyway, when I try to use a mail account connected through (for example) gmail (imap), everything works fine(so dovecot/imap server is ok I guess..) but when I try connecting through squirelmail/atmail i get an unexplained error..

Here is the SquirelMail error:
Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
:
..
Any ideas?

 

[maiijarb]

nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost (Add)

nano /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1 (Add)

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

 

[tomtom901]

The solution posted above will often work. You could also try a:

telnet localhost 143

 

[lgrafica]

squirrelmail've tried to rebuild?

 

[nobaloney]

I've had this problem intermittently, and I've never been able to find the answer; google finds the question but not the answer.

I moved some problematic domains (clients were complaining) to a new server; everything's working.

But now it's started to work again on old server as well.

In our case we copy the same working exim.conf file.

I'm thinking it's more likely a Dovecot issue than a Squirrelmail issue, but I've got no proof; not one of the affected ac****s has been running IMAP on desktop. Any ideas?

Jeff