Mark C. Allman wrote:
I'm thinking that you get the "Connected to" message
from telnet when
the initial connection completes. You get a "Connection refused" when
the firewall blocks the connection. So telnet is trying, and trying,
and trying to connect. Maybe while trying there's an error occurring
that's being logged to /var/log/messages. You are correct that the
connection is never completely established, but it doesn't appear to be
blocked either.
This sounds like imaps is not being launched. This could be because
inetd is not running, or the imaps service in not enabled.
Mikkel
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