---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Marco Fioretti <marco.fioretti@gmail.com> Date: mar 21 gen 2025 alle ore 19:33 Subject: Re: [OFFLIST] Re: connection refused, no error anywhere To: Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com>

Hi Michel,

I cannot say which NGO it is. What I know is that everything with that configuration was working fine, as far as they know, on the old server. So, any help to change the configuration to make it work with the current version of dovecot on Ubuntu 24.04LTS is very welcome...

Il giorno mar 21 gen 2025 alle ore 19:11 Michael Peddemors < michael@linuxmagic.com> ha scritto:

Which NGO?

Don't listen on port 143 any more, make sure to only listen on 587/465/993/995 with TLS/SSL..

NGO's are often targeted..

On 2025-01-21 09:50, Marco Fioretti via dovecot wrote:

...

Greetings,

I was just tasked with rebuilding from scratch the mail server of an NGO, on a brand new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VPS.

I have copied the whole dovecot configuration to the new server, and now am stuck because:

• dovecot IS running, dovecot service status shows no errors, but:

• if I try to connect with mutt from my desktop I get "connection refused"

• the ufw firewall does allow imap/imaps connections, and there are no errors in its log

• even "telnet localhost 143" fails: Trying ::1... Connection failed: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

• I see no related errors in /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/syslog.

output of dovecot -n is pasted below, I only changed the actual domain name to "example.com"

TIA for any pointer, I really need to get this server back online as soon as possible...

Marco

2.3.21 (47349e2482): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Pigeonhole version 0.5.21 (f6cd4b8e)

doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -Pn > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf:9: ssl_dh_parameters_length is no longer needed

OS: Linux 6.8.0-51-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS ext4

Hostname: example.com

auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/mymail_storage/base/ mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = /etc/imap.v_users driver = passwd-file } passdb { driver = pam } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes userdb { args = /etc/imap.v_users driver = passwd-file } userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_ssl = yes

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