Re: [bitfolk] Broken Courier SSL after upgrade from stretch …

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Author: Conrad Wood
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To: Dave Mills, Bitfolk Users
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Broken Courier SSL after upgrade from stretch and crossgrade to AMD64
On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 16:03 +0100, Dave Mills wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Throwing this problem out into the wild to see if anyone has any
> ideas - already had some help from Andy re-crossgrading so trying not
> to bother him with all my woes.
>
> I've upgraded to Buster from Stretch (yep, I know I'm lagging).
> Courier seems to have decided to be my SMTP server instead of Exim
> and I can't get any connections to either IMAP, IMAP-SSL or SMTP from
> the rest of the world. Asfar as I can see courier is running and
> should be trying to do IMAP type things.
>
> Courier doesn't seem to log to its own logfiles, so what it is doing
> is being logged to syslog along with a mess of other stuff.
>
> Neither thunderbird or apple mail give me anything useful on the
> attempt to connect. Just that the connection failed.
>
> Does anyone have any good ideas?
>
> (Note to self - go back in time about 4 years and document your mail-
> server)
>
> cheers,
> David


might just be listening on localhost only?
/etc/courier/imapd-ssl:
I got:
SSLADDRESS=0
instead of default
SSLADDRESS=127.0.0.1

(writing this... "0" feels wrong ;) - but works)