Re: [Dovecot] dovecot starts and exit immediately? - help needed

On 22.7.2005, at 18:29, James Sun wrote:

In my case dovecot did not go to background.

In fact even if I ran dovecot -F, it still exists with stauts 0;

I suspect I might have done something wrong in config file. The config file is sufficiently different from 0.99 rpm that I dare not copy it. Here is the config I am having

If there is an error in config file, Dovecot writes error message to log file. Find the "Dovecot starting" message from log (/var/log/mail.log?) and see if there are any errors after it. Much easier that way than to start guessing where the problem might be.