> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:squirrelmail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Chieppa > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SM-USERS] Squirrelmail + iptables conflict > > I'm having an interesting problem with squirrelmail and my basic > iptables firewall (posted at the bottom of the message). The issue > seems to be limited to the final line of the firewall which tells it > to drop everything not already allowed. With that line present, even > though I've allowed port 143 I get the error message that states > > "Error connecting to IMAP server: nix.domain.com. > 110 : Connection timed out" > > As soon as I remove that line from the firewall squirrelmail can log > in just fine. > > However even with that line present I can log into the Courier Imap > service via either telnet or a standard mail client like Outlook / > Outlook Express. > > I'm racking my brain trying to figure this one out. I want to specify > which services are allowed and block everything else by default and I > can't seem to figure out why squirrelmail can't connect with that line > in place.
Just a suggestion but instead of just guessing what iptables might be doing why don't you reject and log? That way you'll know exactly what it's seeing and can more easily determine why it's dropping the packets. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
