Gee, it would help if I would type the message BEFORE hitting send... Kevin Worthington said: > Hello, > > I updated xinetd this morning, and now I'm unable to retrieve mail via > squirrelmail. I think it has to do with imap not fetching the mail > correctly (from the main mail server in my company). When I try to login > to the squirrelmail web interface, I get: > > Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_hostconnect: connect failed > in /var/www/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 172 Odd. I would have expected SM to just tell you it couldn't connect rather than PHP giving you an error. > I ran: "netstat -lnp" to see if port 143 was listening, but it does not > show up. > I also tried "/etc/xinetd.d/imap restart", but I get "permission denied". This file isn't an executable, it is a config file for xinetd. > I tried other things as well, that were unsuccessful, such as: > [root@xxxxxxxx root]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart > Stopping xinetd: [FAILED] > Starting xinetd: [ OK ] > [root@xxxxxxxx root]# > > Can anyone tell me how to restart imap (or squirrelmail, if I'm mistaken > about imap (?) ) ? > > TIA, > Kev What does the following give you?: $ /sbin/chkconfig --list imap If it says that imap is off, do (as root): $ /sbin/chkconfig imap on -- William Hooper
