thanks for you help ,and i still not resolve my issus. i what dovecot as postfix's stmp auth and imap server,so iguess its must have auth process and imap process,official documents also have more processes than 5 i try telnet localhost 110,and telnet localhost 143,i got : Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Luuk@dovecot <dovecot@vosslamber.nl> wrote:

On 03-11-2012 10:18, mican zhang wrote:

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i install dovecot 2 and when i try ps auxw|grep "dovecot" i just get only 5processes, root 21861 0.0 0.0 14884 980 ? Ss 16:53 0:00 /usr/local/sbin /dovecot dovecot 21862 0.0 0.0 12740 968 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/anvil root 21863 0.0 0.0 12872 1088 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/log root 21865 0.0 0.0 15356 1468 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/config root 21945 0.0 0.0 61148 800 pts/0 S+ 17:04 0:00 grep dovecot , my os is redhat 5.4 and i just install like ./configure make &make install i don't what's wrong?i also test on centos 6.2,and result is the same does anyone has the same issue?and what should i do to fix this?

maybe you should do: ps auxw|grep "dovecot" | awk '{ print $0; print $0 }'

than you would get 10 lines of output......

but seriously:

• What processes do you miss?
• Why do you thing 5 processes are nog enough?