Hi All, thanks so far for all worthy information provided so far. I personally agree to leave such tasks to professionals, as long as you can afford their services and those meet your requirements. IMHO, you should always consider this possibility before embarking on some 'home brew solution'. In my case, I am learning new stuff (like set-up a IMAP server), and evaluating what's possible... I am now able to fetch the mails and store them in a maildir structure. Now I am trying to connect to my local dovecot IMAP server running on F14, but not avail. dovecot is running, the imap ports 143, 993 are listening: $sudo netstat -atp | grep imap tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 5982/dovecot tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 5982/dovecot tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 5982/dovecot tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 5982/dovecot When I try to telnet imap port on a client machine, I'm getting: $ telnet 192.168.0.150 143 Trying 192.168.0.150... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host But a tcpdump on the IMAP server reveals that the TCP packet is arriving at the interface: $sudo tcpdump -i eth0 dst port 143 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 16:46:29.029730 IP 192.168.0.107.49721 > 192.168.0.150.imap: Flags [S], seq 1571763932, win 5840, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 912067 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 Are there some security settings on F14 (firewall, SE linux...) that need to be weakened? TIA, Lew -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines