[Dovecot] How to find an invalid configuration in dovecot.conf

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Nov 28 17:18:47 EET 2007


On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:08 +0100, Laurent PELLISSIER wrote:
> dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Error: Dovecot is already 
> running with PID 4369 (read from 
> /opt/dovecot-1.0.8/var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
> dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: Invalid 
> configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf
> dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: EOF while reading 
> environment from master

These happen only if you're trying to use Dovecot from inetd. Do you
really need it? I'd suggest running dovecot directly, it works a lot
better and most likely gives better error messages as well.

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