Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:09:07 -0300 Diego Ledesma wrote: [ ... ] I only installed dovecot-common package. Also, i setted protocols to none. Does anyone know why i get that error message? Protocols none also means no imap. BTW ... imap is a protocol :-) --Frank Elsner
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On 9/5/2008, Diego Ledesma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Today i installed Dovecot through apt-get (got version 1.0.rc17 This is entirely too old... upgrade. -- Best regards, Charles
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/5/2008, Diego Ledesma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Today i installed Dovecot through apt-get (got version 1.0.rc17 This is entirely too old... upgrade. -- Best regards, Charles I did an apt-get update before installing Dovecot. Do you know what should i do to upgrade Dovecot? Thanks.
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On 9/6/2008 11:30 AM, Diego Ledesma wrote: Today i installed Dovecot through apt-get (got version 1.0.rc17 This is entirely too old... upgrade. I did an apt-get update before installing Dovecot. Do you know what should i do to upgrade Dovecot? Use backports? -- Best regards, Charles
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/6/2008 11:30 AM, Diego Ledesma wrote: Today i installed Dovecot through apt-get (got version 1.0.rc17 This is entirely too old... upgrade. I did an apt-get update before installing Dovecot. Do you know what should i do to upgrade Dovecot? Use backports? -- Best regards, Charles Ok. I did apt-get install dovecot and it says that i have the most recient version of Dovecot?? I know that recient versions of my linux system come with recient versions of postfix and Dovecot. Would i break something if i try to install those versions on my linux version? I will try the backports approach... Thanks..
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Diego Ledesma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/6/2008 11:30 AM, Diego Ledesma wrote: Today i installed Dovecot through apt-get (got version 1.0.rc17 This is entirely too old... upgrade. I did an apt-get update before installing Dovecot. Do you know what should i do to upgrade Dovecot? Use backports? -- Best regards, Charles Ok. I did apt-get install dovecot and it says that i have the most recient version of Dovecot?? I know that recient versions of my linux system come with recient versions of postfix and Dovecot. Would i break something if i try to install those versions on my linux version? I will try the backports approach... Thanks.. Bad news for me... fesity-backports doesn't have a more recient version of dovecot than the one i have installed... Before starting this thread i googled for this issue and one person said that he installed dovecot imap server (although he, as i do, only needed dovecot-auth) and the error went away. I will try this and see what happens... hope it doesn't break something with my courier imap that's running on the server...
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
Diego, Ok. I did apt-get install dovecot and it says that i have the most recient version of Dovecot?? I know that recient versions of my linux system come with recient versions of postfix and Dovecot. Would i break something if i try to install those versions on my linux version? I will try the backports approach... My personal opinion on this is that you should contact your OS vendor (in your case, Canonical) for assistance. They have packaged a specific Dovecot version, and will backport upstream fixes as appropriate. The contributors here are unable to help you; we would have to look at the ubuntu changelogs to see what upstream fixes have been backported to that your Feisty dovecot package. That said, my second personal opinion is that you are running an *entirely* inappropriate OS for server tasks. If you wish to use Ubuntu, you should be using 6.06-server LTS or 8.04-server LTS. Using a 7.04, which is an interim release, and barely supported (I use the word loosely) for more than 12 months is going to get you into exactly these problems. If you want to run a server OS, use one that gives you more than 5 years support (and backported upstream fixes). -- Kind Regards, :: http://www.cjbuckley.net/ Chris Buckley :: http://photos.cjbuckley.net/
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:23:54 -0200 Diego Ledesma wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Frank Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:09:07 -0300 Diego Ledesma wrote: [ ... ] I only installed dovecot-common package. Also, i setted protocols to none. Does anyone know why i get that error message? Protocols none also means no imap. BTW ... imap is a protocol :-) --Frank Elsner Oh. According to the comments in my dovecot.conf setting protocols to none means that only dovecot-auth is enabled... What should i write under Protocols to just enable that? My dovecot.conf contains protocols = imap imaps BTW, Please keep the thread on the mailing list, Cced here. --Frank Elsner
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Christopher J. Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Diego, Ok. I did apt-get install dovecot and it says that i have the most recient version of Dovecot?? I know that recient versions of my linux system come with recient versions of postfix and Dovecot. Would i break something if i try to install those versions on my linux version? I will try the backports approach... My personal opinion on this is that you should contact your OS vendor (in your case, Canonical) for assistance. They have packaged a specific Dovecot version, and will backport upstream fixes as appropriate. The contributors here are unable to help you; we would have to look at the ubuntu changelogs to see what upstream fixes have been backported to that your Feisty dovecot package. That said, my second personal opinion is that you are running an *entirely* inappropriate OS for server tasks. If you wish to use Ubuntu, you should be using 6.06-server LTS or 8.04-server LTS. Using a 7.04, which is an interim release, and barely supported (I use the word loosely) for more than 12 months is going to get you into exactly these problems. If you want to run a server OS, use one that gives you more than 5 years support (and backported upstream fixes). -- Kind Regards, :: http://www.cjbuckley.net/ Chris Buckley :: http://photos.cjbuckley.net/ Ok. thanks for that. I will try to contact Canonical about this issue. I know can see that the person who installed the server didn't have a clue what he was doing... Thanks...
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
Frank Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh. According to the comments in my dovecot.conf setting protocols to none means that only dovecot-auth is enabled... What should i write under Protocols to just enable that? My dovecot.conf contains protocols = imap imaps The OP does not want Dovecot to act as an IMAP server; he just wants the auth functionality, so protocols = none is correct. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Frank Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:23:54 -0200 Diego Ledesma wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Frank Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:09:07 -0300 Diego Ledesma wrote: [ ... ] I only installed dovecot-common package. Also, i setted protocols to none. Does anyone know why i get that error message? Protocols none also means no imap. BTW ... imap is a protocol :-) --Frank Elsner Oh. According to the comments in my dovecot.conf setting protocols to none means that only dovecot-auth is enabled... What should i write under Protocols to just enable that? My dovecot.conf contains protocols = imap imaps BTW, Please keep the thread on the mailing list, Cced here. --Frank Elsner Thanks Frank. I few moments ago i was wondering about that. If set protocols to imap will i still get the dovecot sasl auth? I'm asking that because i have the courier imap deamon running (for squirrelmail) and installing dovecot-imap will replace it. Thanks. Diego.
Re: [Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
Ok. thanks for that. I will try to contact Canonical about this issue. The ubuntu forums are a good start; perhaps even the package maintainer might spot your post. Else, if its a bug, create a bug report in Canonical's Launchpad (NB: Bugzila/Launchpaid is NOT a replacement for the support process). I know can see that the person who installed the server didn't have a clue what he was doing... They just choose the wrong operating system. I would suggest that if this is a commercial server with mission critical apps, you contact a commercial Operating System Vendor who can advise you the right OS and packages to install/run. This, of course, will be backed by a full support process. Good luck! -- Kind Regards, :: http://www.cjbuckley.net/ Chris Buckley :: http://photos.cjbuckley.net/
[Dovecot] Error starting dovecot
Hello,
I have a linux system (Ubuntu 7.04 server edition) running Postfix 2.3.8
Today i installed Dovecot through apt-get (got version 1.0.rc17
installed) and configured it to do sasl auth only, (i already have
other pop3,smtp and imap servers running) following the howto's at
dovecot.org
The thing is that if i try to start dovecot or run dovecot -n i get
this message:
Error: Can't use mail executable /usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file
or directory
That directory does not exist but why should it if i don't want to run
dovecot as imap?
I only installed dovecot-common package.
Also, i setted protocols to none.
Does anyone know why i get that error message?
One last comment. Before installing dovecot on the production mail
server i installed it on my laptop's linux (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) for
testing purposes.
The testing mail server runs Postfix 2.5.1 and Dovecot 1.0.10 and in
this case Dovecot runs fine (the /usr/lib/dovecot/imap directory does
also not exist and dovecot.conf is configured exactly on both
servers).
This are the uncommented parts of dovecot.conf
#Only use dovecot-auth
protocols = none
disable_plaintext_auth = no
log_timestamp = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_privileged_group = mail
protocol imap {
}
protocol pop3 {
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
passdb passwd-file {
args = /etc/passwd.dovecot
}
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
user = root
socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}
}
dict {
}
plugin {
}
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Diego.
[Dovecot] Error starting dovecot 1.0.0 /var/run/dovecot/auth-master failed: No such file or directory
Hello: i'm trying a tutorial (http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/en.html) for setting up postfix / dovecot but am getting some errors when i try to start dovecot here's some details of the enviromnent. (Fedora Core 6) $ uname -a Linux foo.com 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ ./dovecot --version 1.0.0 $ ./dovecot -n # /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/foomail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/etc/dovecot_sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=721 gid=721 home=/var/spool/foomail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes 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: foomail $ now when i try to start dovecot it dies giving the following error message in /var/log/maillog Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: auth(default): bind(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: auth(default): net_listen_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: child 9760 (auth) returned error 89 I've read the http://wiki.dovecot.org/CompilingSource but am stuck now with this issue. i also googled around a bit but could get any more information about this problem. any help is appreciated. thanks in advance. yashesh bhatia. Go Pre http://www2.localaccess.com/rlalonde/pre.htm
