On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:07 -0500, Marshal Newrock wrote:
Dovecot still fails to start, as near as I can tell, in the specific condition that it is being started from a non-interactive shell and there is a mail_plugin set in "protocol imap". mail plugins set for pop or lda do not cause this problem. The failure to start appears in only two instances that I can see: on boot, or by a monitoring script if dovecot crashes, or, since I haven't seen dovecot die, when I manually stop it to see if the monitoring program will restart it.
It wrote the error message to stderr, but I guess it wasn't shown in the screen or logged?
Anyway, fix here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-February/007637.html
Another workaround would be to set imap_capability manually so Dovecot doesn't need to run the dump-capability process (it checks if plugins added more capabilities).