So I rebooted my mail server, and now dovecot fails to start with:
Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED]
Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use
[FAILED]
[r...@agencymail postfix]# dovecot -n
# 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
release 5.2 (Tikanga) ext3
ssl_cert_file: /etc/httpd/certs/agencymail_example_com.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/httpd/certs/agencymail.example.com.key.no.password
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_max_processes_count: 256
mail_uid: 1015
mail_gid: 105
mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): acl quota imap_quota expire trash
mail_plugins(imap): acl quota imap_quota expire trash
mail_plugins(pop3): expire quota
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
dict_db_config: /etc/dovecot-db.conf
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb:
driver: passwd
userdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb:
driver: static
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
master:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode: 384
user: vuser
group: vuser
plugin:
quota: maildir
quota_rule: *:storage=102400000
quota_rule2: Trash:storage=100M
acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls
trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf
expire: Trash 14 Trash/* 14 Spam 14
expire_dict: proxy::expire
dict:
expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf
Rick Steeves
http://www.sinister.net
"The more I learn, it seems, the less I know." Frazz
