Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-07 Thread Benny Pedersen
Noel Butler skrev den 2013-01-07 03:18: Nope, all severs are slackware (and I dont have any problem which was my point in earlier thread, no reason why 1.2.17 can't still be suitable for years to come) used to have some gentoo as well, but phased them out to keep everything uniform, and

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-07 Thread Joseph Tam
Noel Butler writes: I build from sources all key daemon software anyway, package maintainers can only account for so many configurations. Its not so critical with dovecot now since v2, because, regrettably, Timo removed a lot of fine tune config options that allowed us to only build in what we

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-06 Thread Benny Pedersen
Noel Butler skrev den 2013-01-06 04:47: 1.2.x is really really old It might be old (only deprecated 12 months ago though so not THAT old) it was removed in gentoo recently so now its only 2.x if one still like to use dovecot, for stabalise it could aswell just change to cyrus imapd :=)

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-06 Thread Benny Pedersen
Noel Butler skrev den 2013-01-06 05:56: [snip] Personally, I consider 2.1.x more of a risk then 1.2 so I'm sticking with 1.2.17 until there is an urgent and compelling reason to move to 2.1, that's much the same attitude with other admins I speak to on IRC. [snip] i have added 1.2.17 to

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-06 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 14:14 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote: Noel Butler skrev den 2013-01-06 05:56: [snip] Personally, I consider 2.1.x more of a risk then 1.2 so I'm sticking with 1.2.17 until there is an urgent and compelling reason to move to 2.1, that's much the same attitude with

[Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Evans
I would like to get dovecot running on my laptop so I can transfer a lot of old Email from Thunderbird mailbox files to a hosted zimbra service. However I'm falling at the first hurdle. I'm running Debian squeeze i386 (kernel 2.6.32-5-686) and have installed dovecot-imapd and dovecot-common

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2013 16:48, schrieb Chris Evans: root@delldeb:/etc/dovecot# ps aux | grep dove root 10353 0.0 0.0 3944 792 ?Ss 15:32 0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf root 10356 0.0 0.0 10008 2420 ?S15:32 0:00 dovecot-auth root

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Evans
[SOLVED] - thanks to Harald Reindl - [SOLVED] - Original Message - From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, 5 January, 2013 4:01:09 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 17:01 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: 1.2.x is really really old It might be old (only deprecated 12 months ago though so not THAT old) but it is very, very, stable (and widely used in large installations and likely will be for some time to come) That said, it is pointless

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.01.2013 04:47, schrieb Noel Butler: On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 17:01 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: 1.2.x is really really old It might be old (only deprecated 12 months ago though so not THAT old) i do not know here you work but where i work is a no longer maintained software a no-go

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

2013-01-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 04:54 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: 1.2.x is really really old It might be old (only deprecated 12 months ago though so not THAT old) i do not know here you work but where i work is a no longer maintained software a no-go Most places prefer known stability over