[Dovecot] Fresh Dovecot Install

[Jakob Curdes]

>I get nothing when I:
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>rpm -qa | grep dovecot
>ps aux | grep dovecot
>service dovecot status
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I suppose you are expecting that after doing a "make install", the 
application already runs, like you are used from rpm installs ?
That will not be the case. I am not even sure if the dovecot install 
process places a start/stop script in /etc/init.d. Often you have to do 
many things on your own after a source install, like adapting or 
creating a start/stop script or copying and modifying a sample 
configuration file. That's what Mark pointed out : you should probably 
at least go through the provided configuration file and then you can try 
and start dovecot by hand and observer the relevant logfiles, depending 
on your dsitribution. If you find that all works well, you can use the 
start/stop mechanism to integrate dovecot startup into your system 
startup. Sorry, but when compiling source packages you have to "RTFM" 
and adapt the explanations to your configuration.

If you configured dovecot and started it and it fails to run, start it 
from the command line and watch out for fatal errors on STDOUT or in the 
logs. Most probably the ports are in use by another pop/imap program.

Hope this helps,
Jakob Curdes