[Dovecot] Start-up

Hi. I dovecot RPM on RH9,Of course,I used RPM fro RH9,But when i run "service dovecot start" I receiving a OK But when i run "service dovecot status" I receiving folloing line: dovecot dead but subsys locked & even when i run "ps -A |grep dovecot" ,i'm not receiving anythings. Please guide me..... Yours,Mohsen.

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