Hi,
I'm trying to test Dovecot as an IMAP ans POP3 server but I ran into a fatal problem. On the client side (telnet) I'm trying very basic IMAP commands :
$ telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'.
- OK Dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN lavande secret 1 OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host.
The login succeeds but the connection hangs !
On the server side it complains that the configuration file dovecot.conf is invalid (it was copied from dovecot-example.conf) but it never tells what line number is incorrect. dovecot -a or dovecot -n doesn't complain about a syntax error or something.
It works for POP3 for the same user/pass.
# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot.conf dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:42 Info: Dovecot v1.0.8 starting up dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<lavande>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 4369 (read from /opt/dovecot-1.0.8/var/run/dovecot/master.pid) dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: child 4380 (imap) returned error 89
Best regards,
-- Laurent PELLISSIER @ Ecole des Mines d'Alès