[Dovecot] Dovecot dies on startup????

[Rick Johnson]

Mitchell Baker wrote:
> Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system...  I get the following..
> I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what...
> Any help would be greatly appreciated..
> 
> Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might
> help he as well..
> 
> Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up
> Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded
> Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting
> down
> Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127
> Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
> 

I received this one when using an encrypted private key for SSL. If this 
is the case, make sure your key is unencrypted (and readable only by 
root), or, if possible, the password for the private key is placed in an 
appropriate location.

HTH,
-Rick

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