[Dovecot] dovecot starts and exit immediately? - help needed

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22.7.2005, at 18:29, James Sun wrote:

> In my case dovecot did not go to background.
>
> In fact even if I ran dovecot -F, it still exists with stauts 0;
>
> I suspect I might have done something wrong in config file.  The
> config file is sufficiently different from 0.99 rpm that I dare not
> copy it.  Here is the config I am having

If there is an error in config file, Dovecot writes error message to 
log file. Find the "Dovecot starting" message from log 
(/var/log/mail.log?) and see if there are any errors after it. Much 
easier that way than to start guessing where the problem might be.
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