I've done the installation (rpm downloaded from the RHES4 link given by Oli below) but dovecot won't start, it gave the error pop3-login & imap-login not supported by protocol.
I'm sure with a much older version (in my previous post) of dovecot, I'm able to start up dovecot & it did not give this error. Thought dovecot is suppose to come with pop3 & imap?
# rpm -Uvh --force mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm warning: mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:mysqlclient14 ########################################### [100%] /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libcpqlsptransport.so.0 is not a symbolic link [root@tmp]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql mysql-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9004-3.1 php-mysql-4.3.9-3.8 mysql-server-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1 <== it's there now [root@tmp]# rpm -i ./dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4.i386.rpm warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature [root@tmp]# cd /etc [root@etc]# ls -ld rc*/*dove* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc0.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc1.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc2.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc3.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc4.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc5.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc6.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot [root@nspplss2 etc]# ls -ld rc*/S*dove* ls: rc*/S*dove*: No such file or directory [root@nspplss2 etc]# pwd /etc [root@etc]# ls rc*/*postf* rc0.d/K30postfix rc2.d/S80postfix rc4.d/S80postfix rc6.d/K30postfix rc1.d/K30postfix rc3.d/S99postfixstart rc5.d/S80postfix [root@etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc3.d/S70dovecot [root@etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc5.d/S70dovecot
[root@]# init.d/dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 995) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 993) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Fatal: Failed to start listeners [FAILED]
[root@etc]# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[root@etc]# rpm -qa | grep dove dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4 [root@etc]# chkconfig --list | grep pop3 [root@etc]# chkconfig --list | grep imap On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Oli Schacher dovecot@lists.wgwh.ch wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:00:53 +0800 sunhux G sunhux@gmail.com wrote:
I'm on RHES 4.x
I downloaded 2 dovecot RPM packages from http://packages.sw.be/dovecot/
dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm 13-Nov-2010 22:15 1.8M RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit and dovecot-0.99.13-1.2.el4.test.i386.rpm 21-Feb-2005 16:57 693K RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit
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Q1: Is the test version rpm of dovecot reliable? It's only half the size of the other rpm (that I was not able to install)
0.9 / 1.0 : These versions are way out of date and you will probably have a hard time getting support. I suggest you try the current versions from atrpms.net We have been using the 2.0 RHEL5 packages by Axel Thimm for quite some time now and they work flawlessly.
Link for RHEL4 packages: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el4/dovecot/
Maybe this fixes Q2 as well ;-)
Q3: You'll find lots of examples / tutorials in the dovecot wiki : http://wiki2.dovecot.org/#HOWTOs.2C_examples_and_tutorials
HTH
Oli