[Dovecot] Simply can't figure it out

[Tero Ripattila]

Hello Gaby,

--On 23. toukokuuta 2005 20:47 +0100 Gaby vanhegan <gaby at vanhegan.net> 
wrote:

> I've been trying to install the latest stable version (as of 23rd May
> 2005) by downloading the tarball from the site to my OpenBSD 3.6 box,
> and building with these arguments:

I'm running OpenBSD too. -test70 is only release that I've had serious 
problems with, others have worked like a charmn.

># ./configure --localstatedir=/var --with-ssl=openssl
># --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --without-vpopmail -
> -without-pam --without-shadow

We seem to build the binaries in very similar way. This is how I build 
mine:

$ ./configure --with-pgsql --with-mysql --with-ldap --without-pam 
--without-vpopmail --without-shadow --localstatedir=/var/dovecot 
--sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl

> Here's my configuration file.  I only really want to server imaps,
> but I've turned on imap for debuggering purposes:
>
> And it's running from my inetd.conf:

Personally I run dovecot outside the inetd.

> bash-3.00# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot
> Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use

I think the problem is here, because you already have an installation 
that listens the port 143.

What you should do here is modify dovecot.conf on line 28 and define an 
alternative port there e.g.

listen = 127.0.0.1:144

> dovecot: May 23 20:34:19 Error: login: Missing protocol from server
> name 'imap'

Not sure what this error message means, but one idea that came to my 
mind is that you have no protocol called "imap" specified in 
/etc/services file. This is just an guess thought. Here's what I got 
there:

$ grep imap /etc/services
imap            143/tcp         imap2   # Internet Message Access Proto
imap            143/udp         imap2   # Internet Message Access Proto
imap3           220/tcp                 # Interactive Mail Access
imap3           220/udp                 # Protocol v3
imaps           993/tcp                 # imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL
imaps           993/udp                 # imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL

> http://vanhegan.net/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Is this .conf file really the one you're using to run dovecot as it 
seems to have a typo, please see the following error message:

> dovecot: May 23 20:40:25 Error: login: Unknown protocol 'imap?W'

You got extra characters like "?" and "W" after the word imap - at 
least that's what I can read from your error log.

Thought I cannot see these extra characters in your dovecot.conf so I'm 
wondering if these configuration files really are the same. See line 19:

protocols = imap imaps

Thanks, Tero

-- 
Tero Ripattila