IMAPS and/or openssl problem

[Andrew Kelly]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:06 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Mark C. Allman wrote:
> 
> > Check /var/log/messages to see if anything is logged.  The behavior of
> > telnet sounds like the behavior of openssl.  It's probably not the
> > firewall, but you could just about rule it out by shutting down the
> > firewall for a minute, test (e.g., telnet), and then starting it again.
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I never seem to get any messages about dovecot in /var/log/messages .
> I opened a log-file /var/log/dovecot to get dovecot debug messages,
> but this doesn't get much either.
> Just a message when dovecot starts of finishes.
> 
> I tried closing the firewall with "shorewall clear"
> but this didn't have any effect.

Did you verify with iptables -L that things were really opened up?

Andy