[Dovecot] How to find an invalid configuration in dovecot.conf

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:30 +0100, Laurent PELLISSIER wrote:
> Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> 
> > These happen only if you're trying to use Dovecot from inetd. Do you
> > really need it? I'd suggest running dovecot directly, it works a lot
> > better and most likely gives better error messages as well.
> 
> 	I run it (compiled by myself) from the command line in the foreground 
> to try to debug it :
> 
> # /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot.conf

What if you try to connect to imap port without running it? Does it give
connection refused? Because that error message really looks like you've
configured Dovecot to start from inetd.

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