Postfix on bare CentOS install - A journal of my take on this wacky world

Starting from scratch with a new CentOS 7 Linode, I found that iptables is set by default to block (although not reject) packets to the IMAP and POP3 services.

Rackspace has a good primer on setting up Dovecot that includes these instructions, but here's the short answer:

sudo iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp --dport 587 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT 3 -p tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT 4 -p tcp --dport 143 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT 5 -p tcp --dport 993 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT 6 -p tcp --dport 995 -j ACCEPT sudo /etc/init.d/iptables save sudo /etc/init.d/iptables restart

That adds a rule to accept the IMAP and POP ports, both the regular and SSL versions. Then we save the chain table and restart iptables. Now you should be able to get in: $ telnet myhost.wlindley.com imap Trying myhost.wlindley.com... Connected to myhost.wlindley.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED] Dovecot ready.