[Dovecot] Dovecot can't start with error pop3-login & imap-login not supported protocol family

Wed Feb 16 06:14:53 EET 2011

I uninstalled this latest version & install another old version :
it did not give the earlier errors but it does not have pop3 service:

rpm -i ./dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm
warning: ./dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
ID 6b8d79e6

[root at old]# /etc/init.d/dovecot start
Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot):                            [  OK  ]

[root at old]# telnet localhost 110    # to test if POP3 is listening
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've done the installation (rpm downloaded from the RHES4 link
> given by Oli below) but dovecot won't start, it gave
> the error pop3-login & imap-login not supported by protocol.
>
> I'm sure with a much older version (in my previous post) of
> dovecot, I'm able to start up dovecot & it did not give this
> error.  Thought dovecot is suppose to come with pop3 & imap?
>
>
> # rpm -Uvh --force mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm
> warning: mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
> key ID 443e1821
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:mysqlclient14          ###########################################
> [100%]
> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libcpqlsptransport.so.0 is not a symbolic link
> [root at tmp]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
> mysql-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1
> perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9004-3.1
> php-mysql-4.3.9-3.8
> mysql-server-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1
> mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1   <== it's there now
> [root at tmp]# rpm -i ./dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4.i386.rpm
> warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
> warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
> [root at tmp]# cd /etc
> [root at etc]# ls -ld rc*/*dove*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc0.d/K01dovecot ->
> ../init.d/dovecot
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc1.d/K01dovecot ->
> ../init.d/dovecot
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc2.d/K01dovecot ->
> ../init.d/dovecot
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc3.d/K01dovecot ->
> ../init.d/dovecot
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc4.d/K01dovecot ->
> ../init.d/dovecot
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc5.d/K01dovecot ->
> ../init.d/dovecot
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc6.d/K01dovecot ->
> ../init.d/dovecot
> [root at nspplss2 etc]# ls -ld rc*/S*dove*
> ls: rc*/S*dove*: No such file or directory
> [root at nspplss2 etc]# pwd
> /etc
> [root at etc]# ls rc*/*postf*
> rc0.d/K30postfix  rc2.d/S80postfix       rc4.d/S80postfix  rc6.d/K30postfix
> rc1.d/K30postfix  rc3.d/S99postfixstart  rc5.d/S80postfix
> [root at etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc3.d/S70dovecot
> [root at etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc5.d/S70dovecot
>
> [root@]# init.d/dovecot start
> Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported
> by protocol
> Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol
> Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 995) failed: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol
> Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol
> Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 993) failed: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Fatal: Failed to start listeners
>                                                            [FAILED]
>
> [root at etc]# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> [root at etc]# rpm -qa | grep dove
> dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4
> [root at etc]# chkconfig --list | grep pop3
> [root at etc]# chkconfig --list | grep imap
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Oli Schacher <dovecot at lists.wgwh.ch>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:00:53 +0800
>> sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm on RHES 4.x
>> >
>> > I downloaded 2 dovecot RPM packages from
>> >  http://packages.sw.be/dovecot/
>> >
>> > dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm       13-Nov-2010 22:15  1.8M
>> > RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit
>> >    and
>> > dovecot-0.99.13-1.2.el4.test.i386.rpm   21-Feb-2005 16:57  693K
>> > RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit
>> >
>>
>> [...]
>> >Q1:
>> >Is the test version rpm  of dovecot reliable?  It's only half the size
>> >of the other rpm (that I was not able to install)
>>
>> 0.9 / 1.0 : These versions are way out of date and you will probably
>> have a hard time getting support. I suggest you try the current
>> versions from atrpms.net We have been using the 2.0 RHEL5 packages by
>> Axel Thimm for quite some time now and they work flawlessly.
>>
>> Link for RHEL4 packages: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el4/dovecot/
>>
>> Maybe this fixes Q2 as well ;-)
>>
>> Q3: You'll find lots of examples / tutorials in the dovecot wiki :
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/#HOWTOs.2C_examples_and_tutorials
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Oli
>>
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