Dovecot Failing to start
Hi all,
As usuall I have scoured the internet to find a solution before botheing anyone. I am trying to setup my mail server with POP3 and IMAP functionality and so since dovecot comes with fed4 I figured that was the logical choice. (I am running sendmail is my MTA) Every time I try #service dovecot start (or stop or restart) is fails with no error code/message. I have used yum and apt to try and install it but apparently it is all up to date. Is there anything that could be stopping it or what do I do to find out why it is failing. I looked in maillog but there is nothing related to it there. Any help would be greatly appreciated! |
Try manually starting it at a root prompt with:
/usr/sbin/dovecot -F to see if any errors are being reported. This is usually caused by an error in the configuration file, /etc/dovecot.conf. |
Thankyou!!
It was a "Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use" error I thought it might be. Is the easiest way to get arround this just change the listening port in the conf file? |
Yes - use the syntax:
Code:
listen = *:port Code:
listen = *:8143 |
Hi
Changed the ports in dovecot and now when I do /usr/sbin/dovecot -F it just sits there and if Itype service dovecot start it fails agian :( |
I assume you stopped the manual execution before attempting to start the service?
ps -Afl | grep -i dovecot |
Yeah I did a service dovecot stop if thats enough?
from the above command I got 0 R root 2632 2603 0 77 0 - 938 - 13:43 pts/2 00:00:00 grep -i dovecot I found some interesting information on selinux-policy-targeted relating to FC4 (which I'm running) I'm going to update that and see what happens Thankyou again for your help it is greatly appreciated!! |
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