Firewall disabled; yet "connection refused"

[Jatin K]

On Tuesday 27 March 2012 02:42 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> Quoting Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>:
>
>> What do you get when from "netstat -nap | grep 143"?
>
> # netstat -nap | grep 143
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:143               0.0.0.0:*              
>      LISTEN      1055/dovecot
> tcp        0      0 ::1:143                     :::*                   
>      LISTEN      1055/dovecot
>
> [and some irrelevant stuff that happened to have "143" in it]
>
> Assuming this confirms your suspicion, what do I need to do to fix it?
>
dovecot is only listening on 127.0.0.1 ,

check the config file

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