On 7/22/05, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
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.
Yes, there is an error about "passdb = pam". I changed it to "passdb = passwd" and it now works!
I will do more probing. You will hear more if it does not go well. :) Thanks for the replies.
Jun