Hello ,

Went to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, hunted down "ssl_listen =" which I had set it up to "ssl_listen = required" and commented it out. Tried "service dovecot start" and it started.

The USD2,000,000 question being :

what does this do (I know , I know, I cannot remember, I documented all this for v1.2.14) and will I need it in the future ?

THank you people,

spyros

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• Vangelis

--- On Fri, 12/11/10, Spyros Tsiolis stsiol@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

From: Spyros Tsiolis stsiol@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [Dovecot] dovecot startup error message To: "Dovecot" dovecot@dovecot.org Date: Friday, 12 November, 2010, 20:15 Hello kind people,

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Dovecot v1.2.16. Freshly installed today. Comes up with this during service startup (CentOS 5.5 -> "service dovecot start" <ENTER> :

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Restarting DovecotFatal: ssl_listen: Can't resolve address required: Name or service not known

Here's "dovecot -n" :

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# 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log ssl_listen: required ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: * Dovecot ready * login_max_processes_count: 32 mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins: zlib auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u userdb: driver: passwd

Any help would greatly appreciated as this is a _live_ system and was supposed to work hours ago (whoooops !) :-)

thank you kindly,

spyros

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"I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise"

• Vangelis