[Dovecot] Dovecot & SquirrelMail

[admin at downend.org]

Update On the Following:
Hey Everyone got some good news and some wierd things...

Firstly,
netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' -- does not show an output
telnet localhost 143 -- Cannot Connect

Secondly,
I have no firewall installed.

Thirdly,
If I type "mail" as the user in SSH I can read my mail and I can send mail from
other servers... which is strange considering it cannot connect

Fourthly,
/etc/init.d/dovecot start (Just start) -- Does not show an output.
pidof dovecot -- Does not state a process for dovecot

Any ideas what I should do... or anyone knows the reason.
I checked mail.err and comes up with the following:
Aug 14 07:15:04 aries imap-login: Can't load private key file
/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pe..................

and of course because of the above SquirrelMail cannot detect the Dovecot Imap
Server.

I would appreciate some step to step guidience as it is getting important.
I also appreciate the people who have helped me and thank you for not being
cocky... or big headed...

Once dovecot is running I won't be touching it for a very long time :)
Regards,
Mark Smith


Quoting Allen Parker <infowolfe at gmail.com>:

> On 8/14/05, admin at downend.org <admin at downend.org> wrote:
> > Hi I am back thought I should start a new mail... since i lost track of
> > previous. Anyways,
> >
> > Does Dovecot require courier-authdaemon or whatever it is called to run?
> > When running the following i recieve the following output should I kill
> inet
> > from 143 or not.
> >
> > aries:/etc/init.d# netstat -ltnp | grep ':143'
> > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> > 24715/inetd
>
> more than likely, you should check in your distribution's inetd.conf
> (under xinetd, normally /etc/xinetd.d/ is where configurations are
> kept) and remove any reference to an imap server in there since you're
> not launching dovecot from inetd... you should be seeing errors like
> "unable to bind to port" in your syslog coming from dovecot.. (i
> personally don't use inetd for launching things... but to each their
> own)
>
> hope this helps
>
> > I am recieving the same response with the dovecot init file:
> >
> > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot
> > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot
> >
> > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
> > aries:/etc/init.d#
> >
> >
> > There is no output possible because of inet?
> > Any Help will be great!
> > Thanks!
> >
>
>
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