Re: [SM-USERS] vague login error

[Jonathan A. <ja...@ce...>]

Hello Drew,
On Monday, December 09, 2002, Drew Kerlee wrote...

> Hey, I've been using Squrrelmail for quite a while now, and recently
> when I installed proftpd, it stopped working.

> That is, when a user goes to login, they can put in their
> username/pass then it comes up with the following page:

> There was an error contacting the mail server. Contact your
> administrator for help.

  A good start is to follow what the error message is telling you. The
  error says it cannot connect to the mail server... have you checked
  your mail server is still running?  Can you telnet to port 143 of
  the mail server?  ie:

    # telnet localhost 143

  Where localhost can be replaced with the IP address of the server.

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
(ja...@ce...)