[Dovecot] Dovecot auth process died because of Socket operation on non-socket

[Tero Ripattila]

Hello Nicolas,

Saturday, May 28, 2005, 4:23:11 PM, you [NS] wrote:

NS> I'm having problems setting up a dovecot1.0 stable on a Debian-amd64
NS> server. The process dies with the following message:

NS> May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Socket
NS> operation on non-socket
NS> May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Socket
NS> operation on non-socket
NS> May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: auth(default): accept() failed: Socket
NS> operation on non-socket

NS> The config file is like this:

NS> protocol imap {
NS> }
NS> protocol pop3 {
NS> }

I think the problem is here. You should not leave these two blocks empty
as they are used to override ports dovecot listens to and you have
nothing there e.g.

protocol imap {
  listen = 127.0.0.1:14300
}

I'd suggest that you comment them out.

Thanks, Tero

-- 
Tero Ripattila