[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF reading environment from master

[Phil Bettinson]

Have you tried the rpm's/compiled sources for your distrobution?

I had a similar problem compiling from source, but found that the RPM's 
fixed it. They did ask for two dependencies, wish are MySQL, and 
Postrgresql, which duly installed meant the thing just worked, almost 
out of the box.

The only thing I can suggest (as the config file that works with the 
binaries is the same one I used when I tried to comile it), it to try 
installing the two dependencies.

Phil

Marcathian Alexander wrote:
> 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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