[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF reading environment from master

[Marcathian Alexander]

Hello
On 7 sept 2005 I downloaded compiled and installed Dovecot v1.0.alpha1.
I get the following error when ever I try to start it using
fossil:/usr/local/libexec/dovecot # ./imap-login
Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master

The dovecot.err log has the following error:
dovecot: Sep 08 18:47:33 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha1 starting up
dovecot: Sep 08 18:47:33 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap'

I am not using xinetd to start it.  the Alpha version has not worked no
version of dove cot has worked since I first reported this problem.

I shall be gratefull for any solutions offered

Marcathian


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:04:28 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:57 -0400, 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
> 
> Running Dovecot from xinetd hasn't usually been working. I guess it
> works in some releases, but I haven't really tried to keep it working..
> Maybe I should fix it for v1.0 release.


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