[Dovecot] dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3603 seconds.

[Daniel L. Miller]

Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> <nervous_darting_eyes> Hi Everyone. </nervous_darting_eyes>
>
> Ooops I just broke my dovecot install.
>
> I've looked through the mailing list archives and not found anything 
> relevant.
>
>
> When I try to connect to my mail server I get this message.
> "Could not connect to mail server chen.home.org; connection was refused"
>
>
> The last message in /var/log/mail.err is:-
>
> Aug 13 21:02:27 chen dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3603 
> seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself 
> now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
>
>
> It seems this is my own fault.  Time on my system is a little wonky so 
> I reset the time and then I found out I'd broken Dovecot.  I didn't 
> realise that doing this would have an impact on dovecot.  I read the 
> web page and to be honest I'm not confident about hacking source code.
>
> I've reinstalled dovecot which worked except it hasn't solved my time 
> travel problem.
>
> By the way since my first install of dovecot the config file seems to 
> have changed a little but since I've tried to migrate my settings over 
> the new file and been met with the same problem I don't think it's that.
>
> Is it possible to get dovecot working again?
What happens when you try to start Dovecot again?  Not re-install - just 
start it.

-- 
Daniel