[Dovecot] dovecot 2 doesn't start with managesieve

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Feb 21 03:25:26 EET 2012


On 21.2.2012, at 3.20, nti at w4w.net wrote:

> I build dovecot 2.0.16 and and dovecot-pigeonhole-0.2.5 on two machines with the same options. The config files are equivalent. On the first machine everything works fine - on the second dovecot with managesive won't start (without sieve protocol it does).
> 
> 	Error: socket() failed: Protocol not supported
> 	Error: service(managesieve-login): listen(::, 4190) failed: Protocol not supported
> 	Fatal: Failed to start listeners
> 
> I controlled the config, build pigeonhole a second time - nothing helps. 
> 
> Any idea ? Is there a possibility to debug the start?

You don't have IPv6 supported, so listening in "::" fails. Disable it with:

listen = *




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