[Dovecot] USER environment missing

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:01 -0400, Ed wrote:
> I am new to dovecot, and while I have the pop server running fine, I am 
> having trouble with the imap server.
> 
> It starts, but when I try to connect, I get an error:
> 
> telnet localhost imap
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> imap(??): Fatal: USER environment missing
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Not sure where to start on this one. (or what to show you).

Are you trying to run 0.99.x Dovecot's imap binary directly from inetd?
That's what the error message looks like..

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