[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF reading environment from master

[Jacob Elder]

Have you tried deleting removing the indexes? Dovecot will rebuild  
them automatically and at no cost for smaller mailboxes, so they're  
typically safe to delete.

--
Jacob Elder



On Aug 16, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Marcathian Alexander wrote:

>
> 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?
>
> --
> Marcathian Alexander
> SDE Assistant
> Sustainable Development and Environment Section
> Ministry of Physical Development, Environment & Housing
> Open Source Software Evaluation Project - WebMail/Groupware/ 
> Collaboaration
> [Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)]
>
>