[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF reading environment from master

[Marcathian Alexander]

I have been running dovecot as an imap server since 22nd July 2005.
The server was started from xinetd using /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-auth
The sever run successfully until the machine was shut down in a power outage
on 12 Aug 2005.  Dovecot has failed to start since the reboot.  When starting
it with the imap-auth it gives the following error:
   fatal: EOF reading environment from master

I have uninstalled dovecot, downloaded, compiled, and installed the stable of
14Aug 2005 and got the same error.  I then installed the 0.99.14 version ang
got the same error.

Can i have assistance in solving and/or diagnosing the problem? 

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Marcathian Alexander
SDE Assistant
Sustainable Development and Environment Section
Ministry of Physical Development, Environment & Housing
Open Source Software Evaluation Project - WebMail/Groupware/Collaboaration
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