i am unable tostart dovecot using default config.
service dovecot start [FAILED]




base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
protocols = imap pop3
imap_listen = 10.0.0.2
pop3_listen = 10.0.0.2
ssl_disable = yes
login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login
#login_chroot = yes
login = imap
login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_user = dovecot
login_process_size = 32
login_process_per_connection = yes
login_processes_count = 3
login_max_processes_count = 128
login_max_logging_users = 256
login = pop3
login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
max_mail_processes = 1024
verbose_proctitle = no


any suggestions

thankx

please check your log's. this is probably /var/log/maillog but might vary slightly.

thanks for replay
i downloaded a new version of dovecot 1.0 alpha. and running properly.
# netstat -an | egrep 'pop3|imap'


getting imap and pop3 running.

but a new problem is that

# telnet localhost 110

user neo
ok
pass neo

ERR

getting authentication error. i am using it /etc/passwd file for users, and mta is sendmail.
any idea

thax