On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:26:23AM -0800, Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen wrote: > But when i run "service dovecot status" > I receiving folloing line: > dovecot dead but subsys locked You may have a stale dovecot lock file in /var/lock/subsys. As to why dovecot may not be starting up, there should be information in the log files providing clues (check /var/log/maillog).