I "upgraded" my server running UW-IMAP on Fedora 1, to Fedora 2, which defaults to Dovecot. Unfortunately, the server refuses connecions from my client (Mozilla).
It seems that Dovecot immediately exits: ps aux|grep dovecot shows nothing. Also, if I manually start up dovecot, it immediately exits, with no messages. (It does at least parse the config file, since tweaking that gives me errors.)
What is surprising is that I haven't been able to "Google" to find anone else reporting someting similar, so I'm wonderring what makes my system unique.
I tried downloading, compiling and running the current UW-imap. Mozilla is able to connect to it, and ask for a password, but rejects the login. Curious that we're getting two such very different failure modes.
Help would be most appreciated; for now neither I nor others who use my imap server can access our mail (except by directly viewing the /var/spool/mail file).
--Per Bothnerper@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/