topic Re: IMAP bound to localhost, how do I change it? in Alfresco Archive

IMAP bound to localhost, how do I change it?

warmbowski — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:23:35 GMT

After install of Alfresco CE 3.2 on CentOS 5.1, I enabled IMAP in the alfresco-global.properties file using these settings: imap.server.enabled=trueimap.server.port=143imap.server.host=alfresco.mydomain.com‍‍‍‍‍IMAP is up and running but the protocol seems to bound to localhost only, as displayed by

Re: IMAP bound to localhost, how do I change it?

warmbowski — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:23:19 GMT

Nevermind, it seems that the domain that I used alfresco.mydomain.com was listed in my hosts file and mapped to the localhost IP address. So I changed the imap.server.host= setting from the FQDN to the server IP address and all works fine now.

Re: IMAP bound to localhost, how do I change it?

cloudcontrol — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:42:22 GMT

Hope this helps someone: on Amazon EC2, don't spend hours chasing your tail trying to use your Elastic IP in /etc/hosts- use the NAT IP, as in:

127.0.0.1 localhost
10.xxx.xxx.xxx alfresco.yourdomain.com alfresco‍‍

Re: IMAP bound to localhost, how do I change it?

elibra — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:17:11 GMT

it seems that the domain that I used alfresco.mydomain.com was listed in my hosts file and mapped to the localhost IP address. So I changed the imap.server.host= setting from the FQDN to the server IP address and all works fine now.

thank you very much! it helped me

lesson learned: pay attention what is in /etc/hosts
( especially if uoy'we used to install several updates of alfresco versions):
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xx.xx.xx u-alfresco u-alfresco_a alfresco.yourdomainname.com