[Dovecot] Can't connect to IMAP

[David Hall]

Pascal Volk skrev:
> Hi David,
>
> Am 06.08.2008 10:59 schrieb David Hall:
>   
>> …
>> My problem since a few days back is that IMAP doesn't seem to be started.
>>
>> The logfiles says's everything is in order, but port 143 isn't up and
>> Squirrelmail can't connect, i have no clue what's causing this
>> everything runned smoothly a couple of days ago.
>>
>> Im using postfix/amavis & spamassasin.
>>     
>
> Is Dovecot really running on your system? Please show the output from
> `ps -ef | grep dovecot` and `netstat -tlpn | egrep ':(143|993)`.
> How do you try to connect to the imapd?
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
>
>   
>> Here's some information
>>
>> Dovecot v1.1.2
>>
>> [output from `dovecot -n` snipped ]
>>
>> And once again.
>>
>> I don't get any errors in the logfiles.
>>
>> Mail.log last 5 lines after a restart
>> …
>> Aug  6 07:47:58 localhost postfix/virtual[32190]: C4FD1406024:
>> to=<sn0wman at strutn.nu>, orig_to=<root at strutn.nu>, relay=virtual,
>> delay=0.07, delays=0.03/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered
>> to maildir)
>> …
>>     
>
> This Mail was delivered with Postfix's virtual transport, not with
> Dovecot's LDA http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix()
>
>   
>> Aug  6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Killed with signal 15
>> Aug  6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.2 starting up
>> Aug  6 10:55:57 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql:
>> Connected to localhost (postfix)
>>     
>
> Looks good.
>
>
> Regards,
> Pascal
>
>   
Problem solved.

it was listen = and not listen = * that caused it.

strange thing is that i haven't changed those lines.