Re: dovecot: imap: Connecting to localhost...failed

[Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

Hi Tassilo,

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
>> (setq gnus-select-method 
>>       '(nnimap "dc" (nnimap-address "localhost")))
>
> That looks correct.  Does it work, if you login using telnet?  I assume
> no.

Could you explain exactly what you have in mind here? Does any of the
following answer your question? I can ssh to localhost with no
problem. However if I try telnet I get:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
~> telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I just tried a couple of remote machines and can't telnet to them either
(I can ssh in both cases). But that's to do with telnet not having
approproate security features isn't it? [I haven't used telnet for years
-- I thought it was obsolete technology?]

>
>> The only thing I'm changing in the dovecot config file is
>> mail_location. I've tried two values for that:
>> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
>
> I think you cannot say ~, because that will look into the "mail" (or
> "imap"?) users $HOME only.  To use the users home put a %u into the
> path.  (I didn't test that.  If it doesn't work, have a look at the
> docs.  The example dovecot.conf tells you how to do it in the comments
> above mail_location.)

OK, good point, but I've now tried writing the path explicitly, and I
get the same error:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
mail_location = maildir:/home/dan/Maildir
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
imap: Connecting to localhost...failed
nnimap (dc) open error: 'nil'.  Continue? (y or n) 
Couldn't open server on dc
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Maybe this is obviously true but I've just checked and dovecot's not
logging any messages when gnus tries to connect (I used dovecot
--log-error to check I can see error messages and turned on auth_verbose
and auth_debug and auth_debug_passwords).

Thanks,

Dan

>
> HTH,
> Tassilo