Re: [Dovecot] Fatal: Dovecot is already running

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 11:42 -0500, Jim wrote:

8/27/09 2:08:25 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[31] Fatal: Dovecot is
already running with PID 143 (read from /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ master.pid) .. 8/27/09 2:08:25 AM SystemStarter[31] dovecot (115) did not complete
successfully

When I checked the server and saw this, I simply started it via the
command line, and it came right up, but of course that was hours
later. Since this script is only called at startup, would it be safe
to just delete master.pid before trying to start dovecot?

Yes. And actually you could just delete everything under /usr/local/var/run/dovecot.