[Dovecot] Problem with opening ports in alpha5 ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 09:55 -0500, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:
> If I leave the "listen" value as the default in /etc/dovecot.conf I'll
> get a message similar to the following on each port that it tries to
> open during startup:
> 
> # dovecot -F
> Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use
> 
> If I set either:
>     listen = *
> 
> or
>    listen = [::]
> 
> then it will start up fine.  Perhaps it is as though the code tries to
> open the port twice for both ip4 and ip6?

I can't reproduce this with current hg. Could you try if this still
happens with nightly snapshots? If it does, dovecot -n output might show
something useful. Oh and what OS are you using?

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