imapsync migration

Using the imapsync utility according to your how-to.
yum installed with dependencies successfully.

All parameters on command line OK.
Getting the following error after the "will try" and "From & To" lines:

"Can not open imap connection on [host1 ip] with user [username@host1] : IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection timed out"

NOTE: host1 substituted for the actual ip addr. username@host1 substituted for the actual email user.

The server on host1 has been operating correctly for almost 4 years. Just doing a migration to a different host.

Server is Fedora 8 X64 with Apache, Postfix/Dovecot/Amavis/Clamav/SpamAssassin running on an AMD Athlon 64X2 2.4GHz 4GB.

Any help with this error appreciated.

SeaHawkJa

 

What's the output of

Code:

netstat -tap

on the IMAP server?

 

netstat -tap output

[root@ws1 /]# netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 2192/dovecot
tcp 0 0 *op3s *:* LISTEN 2192/dovecot
tcp 0 0 *:43907 *:* LISTEN 1858/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:10024 *:* LISTEN 2217/amavisd (maste
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:10025 *:* LISTEN 2273/master
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 2164/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *op3 *:* LISTEN 2192/dovecot
tcp 0 0 *:imap *:* LISTEN 2192/dovecot
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 1839/rpcbind
tcp 0 0 ws1.somename.net:http *:* LISTEN 2301/httpd
tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 2075/vsftpd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:ipp *:* LISTEN 2424/cupsd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 2273/master
tcp 1 16 ws1.somename.net:smtp sub-228ip138.mio.an:38739 CLOSING -
tcp 0 0 ws1.somename.netop3 192.168.0.33:4206 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 2049/sshd
tcp 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 2301/httpd
tcp 0 2368 ws1.somename.net:ssh c-my-ip-adr-here.hsd1:cvmmon ESTABLISHED 24242/0

 

Looks ok. Is there maybe a firewall that blocks access to IMAP?

 

Can do using LAN IP addr

Nothing in the firewall blocking imap - I think it is in the server config.

As I was using SSH to access the server previously, I decided to go in to the client and try imapsync directly on the server - same timeout result!

Tried the quick imap telnet check to server.net 143 and that was a no go.

Decided to use server's IP since I was at the site and ...voila - she speaks.


So re-ran the imapsync from another station using SSH and the server's IP and off it went.

Anyway, since the email migration is the priority now, I am proceeding with that. I still need to check on the server's config to see what's up with the imap 143 blocking for future reference if I have to do this on another server.

Thanks for those who took the time to check in on this, and also Falko for your input.

SeaHawkJa

 

Looks as if the hostname is resolving to a wrong IP. Did you check that?