[Dovecot] exim4 + dovecot + SquirrelMail virtualhosted on Debian

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo at kalinowski.com.br
Wed Feb 25 23:54:55 EET 2009


Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> So I installed the most current Dovecot package (1.0.rc15) in Debian.  Something is broken though...
>>
>> As I log into SquirrelMail, I get an error message "Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost. 111 : Connection refused".  To investigate, I decided to telnet localhost on port 143 and found out that yes, the connection is in fact refused.
>>
>> So what do I need to do in order to have dovecot listen on port 143?
>>
>> Also, I noticed when I restart dovecot...
>>
>> debian:/etc/dovecot# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
>> Restarting mail server: dovecotError: Can't use mail executable /usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file or directory
>>
>> I hope this isn't a serious problem.
>>
>>     
>
> You probably didn't install the dovecot-imap package.
>   

Also, in the Debian setup you'll have to modify the
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file and specify imap in the protocols line.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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