[Dovecot] Listener not binding to port

[Mike Jones!]

Hello.

Dovecot is not binding or listening on port 993 when I start it.

$ sudo netstat -tlnp | grep -c 993
0

Dovecot starts fine and runs without complaints.

$ sudo service dovecot restart
Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecot.

$ sudo tail /var/log/mail.log
Apr  4 13:42:39 mwjones dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal
15 (by pid=16238 uid=0 code=kill)
Apr  4 13:42:39 mwjones dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.18 starting up
(core dumps disabled)

$ sudo ps -ef | grep -i [d]ovecot
root     16243     1  0 13:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
dovecot  16245 16243  0 13:42 ?        00:00:00 dovecot/anvil
root     16246 16243  0 13:42 ?        00:00:00 dovecot/log
root     16248 16243  0 13:42 ?        00:00:00 dovecot/config

Still no listener :(

$ sudo netstat -tlnp | grep -c 993
0

Other infos for your scrutiny.

$ sudo dovecot --version
2.0.18

$ doveconf -n
# 2.0.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.5-grsec x86_64 Debian wheezy/sid ext4
auth_debug = yes
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_verbose = yes
first_valid_uid = 1000
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
mail_debug = yes
mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir
passdb {
  args = /home/vmail/%d/etc/passwd
  driver = passwd-file
}
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
  user = root
}
service imap-login {
  service_count = 1
}
service ssl-params {
  type = startup
}
ssl_cert = </etc/apache2/ssl/GandiStandardSSLCA.pem
ssl_key = </etc/apache2/ssl/ssl.key
userdb {
  args = /home/vmail/%d/etc/passwd
  driver = passwd-file
}
verbose_ssl = yes


What am I missing and how do I fix this?

Thanks,
mwjones