IMAP Access Not Working!!

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Fri Oct 21 20:20:36 UTC 2005


On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:10:06AM -0400, Ki Song wrote:
> >>> I chose cyrus because it was listed as the IMAP server in the Perfect Setup
> >>> - Fedora Core 4. There is no other specific reason I chose that server.
> >>> 
> >>> The site you pointed me to above looks good, however, I can't find any
> >>> reference to Dovecot.
> >>> 
> >>> Where is it?
> >> 
> >> Well, that's funny, I can't find it either ... I set up my home server
> >> according to that How-to. Maybe dovecot just works out of the box?
> >> Seriously ... I don't remember having to do anything except install it
> >> and turn it on, now that you mention it.
> >> 
> > dovecot is part of the basic distribution. /etc/dovecot.conf is the
> > configuration file. chkconfig --level 35 dovecot on
> > will put dovecot at the proper place in the chkconfig system. But I
> > suspect it is already done. service dovecot restart
> > will restart dovecot after you configure /etc/dovecote.conf
> > Finally,/usr/share/doc/dovecot-0.99.14/examples/dovecot-example.conf
> > will give you a sample dovecot.conf file to use as a model.
> > Be sure imap is chosen as one of the protocols.
> > -- 
> 
> Thanks, Aaron. When I entered:
> service dovecot restart
> 
> - it failed to stop
> - it failed to start. Address already in use
> 
> How do I find out which program is using that address?
I kind of guess you have cyrus running. You need to stop it before
starting dovecot.
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