Together with the hints from Ingo I found it: the service was indeed denied. I have explicitly allowed it in the hosts.allow file now.
Thanks all for the quick help!
Wouter.
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:55 +0200, Romeo Benzoni wrote:
Hi most probably tcpd refuse the connection. what does tcpdmatch says? run: "tcpdmatch imapd localhost" "tcpdmatch imapd <your-client-ip>" on the server. further information on tcpd config (/etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny) "man 5 hosts_access" cu romeo On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:25 +0800, Wouter van Marle wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for probably asking again, but I can not read the archives! > Searching goes, just the reading of individual messages doesn't work. > Webmaster, please check on this. > > Anyway here my question. > I've installed cyrus-imapd on Mandrake 10.2, and now have connection > problems. > Locally (connecting through localhost) it goes fine: connect to imapd > on normal imap, no problem. > Over the network it goes wrong. I've a local network, and when > connecting from my laptop to imapd on 192.168.1.1 I can not connect. > Telnet to that box on imap and imaps ports give a "connection > refused". Syslog shows "imapd refused connection from ..." with the IP > address of my laptop. The ports are opened in my firewall, with > firewall disabled I get exactly the same errors. > > Please advice! > > Installed software (from Mandrake rpm): > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-7mdk > cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.12-7mdk > > Wouter. >