[Dovecot] dovecot won't launch

[Peter Hessler]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:43:00 -0400
Chad Cunningham <ccunning at math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

: Hi,
: 
: I downloaded the latest dovecot (1.0 alpha 3) and tried numerous  
: installs which get me nothing. No errors, no crashes, no segfaults  
: and no running dovecot. It just seems to silently exit. I was trying  
: to build with mysql support but I've also tried a plain old install,  
: just configure, make install, etc. I get nada. strace doesn't show  
: anything, at least as far as I can tell. No messages are logged. No  
: output to the console.
: 
: Any ideas? My only guess, no idea if it matters, is that dovecot  
: doesn't like the fact that this is a VPS (User Mode Linux, Fedora  
: Core 3). But I don't see any reason why not, other mail servers are  
: pretty happy...

Is anything else listening on *:143 or [::]:143?

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