Re: [SM-USERS] Connection refused on 2096 - can't login

[Brian P. <br...@un...>]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 14:59, Paul Lesneiwski wrote:
> Brian Parish wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 13:35, p dont think wrote:
> >>Brian Parish wrote:
> >>>This is a RHEL3 machine with all updates.  Installed the latest stable
> >>>version using the RPM.  Ran the config script but made minimal changes.
> >>>
> >>>When I attempt to browse I get:
> >>>
> >>>The connection was refused when attempting to contact
> >>> my.server.name:2096
> >>
> >>2096?  That's very non-standard; you should tell us more about your
> >>setup if that's normal for you.
> >>
> >>>There's no firewall running.  I can telnet to my imap server.  Just
> >>> can't get as far as a login prompt for SM.
> >>
> >>Read this:
> >>
> >>Posting Guidelines:
> >>
> >>http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines
> >>
> >>Then post what you find from your mail log.
> >
> > Apache/1.3.33
> > dovecot-0.99.14-1.1.el3.rf
> > RHEL3 updated to be current
> >
> > Nothing related shows in the mail log.  In the httpd access log I get:
> >
> > "GET /webmail/src/configtest.php HTTP/1.1" 302 304
> >
> > as a result of attempting to browse to the configtest, but nothing in the
> > httpd error log.  Nothing in the system log.
>
> What is the output of that script?

None - connection refused
>
> > I have no idea why the connection is being attempted on 2096.  Where is
> > this determined?
>
> You're joking, right?  ;)  Please review your SquirrelMail configuration
> file by hand or by using the config/conf.pl script.  Server settings
> including port number are contained therein.
>
> > Not much help I guess.  Any idea where to look next?
>
> After reviewing your server setup in SM config, check configcheck and/or
> login and watch mail log.
>
>
>    - paul

Well it may well be an apache issue, but I have a couple of difficulties with 
your comments:

The port settings in the config file are to do with imap and smtp - these are 
set at the standard 143 and 25.  Nowhere do I see 2096.

An earlier response stated that 2096 is very non-standard, so it seemed 
reasonable to wonder where that number was coming from.  Presumably it's 
something to do with the way apache is configured.

This is probably not a SM issue as you suggest, but given that I can get to 
html pages OK and it's supposedly a bog standard apache install, I had to 
wonder.

And again - there are no messages to look at in the mail log - presumably 
because I don't get far enough to even attempt a login.

Anyway - I'll go back to my apache config and try to work out what the issue 
is there.

thanks
Brian