[Dovecot] Dovecot failing silently on startup

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Julian Melville wrote:

> I'm puzzled... I'm running the Debian package of Dovecot 0.99.10.4 on a
> Debian (testing) server, and it's basically doing nothing on startup for
> an extended period. After a while (maybe 10 minutes or more) it all
> suddenly starts working, all without logging anything untoward.
>
> All the dovecot processes appear to start OK, and 'Dovecot starting up'
> is logged to the syslog. If you telnet to an IMAP or POP3 port at this
> point, it will successfully connect but there's no response (i.e. no '*
> OK dovecot ready').
>

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