[imp] Fwd: Postfix and IMP and firewall

[Ibarra, Michael]

----- Forwarded message from menon at wired2net.com -----
    Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:27:22 -0400
    From: menon at wired2net.com
Reply-To: menon at wired2net.com
 Subject: Postfix and IMP and firewall
      To: chuck at horde.org


> I am running Horde 2.1 and IMP 3.1 and PHP 4.2.3
> The postfix server is the same machine where IMP is installed.
> I have installed all the necessary modules and the test.php file says that
> everything is fine.
> However, it will not log me in. I have tried both POP3 and IMAP.
> I can retrieve my mail using Outlook Express while on the road so the
> postfix setup is fine.

What are you using to retrieve your mail using Outlook? IMAP or POP?

> The server is behind a firewall so I have opened up ports 25, 110 and 143

This was unecessary. First of all, since you have your Horde/IMP server
running IMAP/POP/ SSL, then you should only have to open up port 143 for
SSL, then change all of your entries for "server" to just localhost.

> I get the login window but when I enter my username and password ... it
just
> sits there grinding for a long time.

This could be a DNS issue, if you change this to localhost, this may help.
Since Horde/IMP will talk to the IMAP/POP server for you using SSL, then 
serve that data to you via SSL, you should be OK.

> Here is my servers.php
> 'server' => 'mail.myserver.com',

'server' => 'localhost',

> 'smtphost' => 'myserver.com',

No hostname? Try adding either the FQDN or localhost here as well.

Hope this helps,

-mike