[NBLUG/talk] "Connection refused" when remotely accessing my IMAP server

[Lincoln Peters]

I think that my IMAP server is working properly, but something else on 
my network is not.  I have no difficulty accessing my mail on my local 
machine using a well-behaved mail application (I've switched from KMail 
to Thunderbird for the time being), but if I try to access it from 
anywhere other than my LAN, I get a "Connection refused" error.  And I'm 
pretty sure that it's not an IMAP problem because the same thing happens 
when I try to SSH into the server.


My router (a LinkSys box, non-wireless) is set up to do port forwarding 
on ports 22 (for SSH) and 993 (for IMAPS).  I can tell that the server 
is there (I can perform DNS lookups on it, and it responds to pings), 
but it just refuses all connections.

The firewall on the server doesn't appear to be the culprit (I've even 
tried temporarily disabling it), and my /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files 
are both empty.  Any ideas as to what else might be going wrong?


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Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>