IMAP connection error with squirrelmail

I'm in the process of configuring a linux box as a dedicated server. I've got sendmail running fine, but when I installed squirrelmail, and I browser to my URL, I get a connection error. The firewall is turned off, however, there are no running processes on port 143. The error is below.

i believe that means imap is not running. you need to start it, or install it

You're right, had to turn off the "disabled = true" directive in /etc/xinetd.d/imapd file.

But on a slightly different note, when I send email, it gets stuck in the mail queue for about a minute before going out. Any thoughts?

i have that problem too, it was the tcp server.
Go into your qmailsmtpd directory (usually /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd)

Edit the run file

Where you see this:

exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver --v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \

add a -H right after tcpserver so it looks like this:

exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \


THat should do it!

Except I'm running sendmail mail, not qmail. Any experience with sendmail?

sendmail is garbage, dont use it. www.qmailrocks.org
I only use qmail, it works wonders.

Well, so far so good. I've installed qmail, and it's running! But, when I go to add a user through http://209.166.47.115/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi

I get a 500 error: Premature end of script headers: vqadmin.cgi

Every seen this??

is your admin for the htaccess set to admin as the user name? permissions setup correctly?

Okay, I got qmail up and running, I think. When I try to send mail from squirrelmail, I get the errors below.

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ERROR:
Connection refused
Server replied: 111

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When I try to connect with Outlook express, I can check just fine, but when I try to send:

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'ms1.webdevsol.com', Server: 'ms1.webdevsol.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10051, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

Any thoughts?

try setting up your outlook like this:

username: youname@youdomain.com
pop: pop.yourdomain.com
smtp: mail.yourname.com


dont set your user name with just yourname, the @domain.com must be inserted

This might fix the outlook. Check permissions once again, make sure you check your error logs and post any problems here again. I never experience this problem

Can you help me to fix this site? im trying to have our webmail using the squirrelmail but after fixing some links there is still an error left to that page and it says

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:143 in /home/bicolmai/public_html/squirrelmail-1.5.0/functions/imap_general.php on line 583

or you can view it directly from opening this link http://bicolmail.com/squirrelmail-1.5.0/src/login.php

Thank you guys.

Can you help me to fix this site? im trying to have our webmail using the squirrelmail. I have this message:
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to 201.224.132.22:143 in c:\apache\www\energiatotal\webmail\functions\imap_general.php on line 227

Are you using sendmail? It's been a long time since I encountered that error, but I think I resolved it after following the advise of many, switch to Qmail. www.qmailrocks.org provides everything you need to install it, from the ground up, for beginners, including squirrelmail.

Assuming you're running a flavor of linux.... which I just noticed your not, can't offer much advise for windows.