[Dovecot] Getting "Can't resolve address no: Name or service not known" error when starting Dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.1.2007, at 12.49, Francesco Piraneo Giuliano wrote:

> I tried to modify the configuration file as suggested by Timo
> (ssl_listen: ssl_listen: *:993) BUT Dovecot always answer with the
> same message (Fatal: Can't resolve address no: Name or service not
> known). I still don't realize what kind of service it doesn'k know,
> what kind of name it doesn't know and what address number it's trying
> to resolve, the dovecot logfile is empty!
> I get no reference of what row number of the configuration file make
> the program complaining, I can't get any clue to solve the problem...

Try with 1.0rc16. It gives a nicer error message here.

Your problem anyway is that you've still set some IP address to "no".  
There aren't other ones than listen and ssl_listen. I guess you  
should be able to find the problem also with this:

dovecot -a | grep 'listen.*no'

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