[Dovecot] Cygwin and dovecot-auth problems

[Blacktate]

21/06/2008 3.57 - Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 00:45 +0000, TBlack wrote:
>> Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full
>> load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change
>> login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings Warning:
>> Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth
>> process died too early - shutting down
> 
> Look at the logs for the exact reason why auth process died. 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging

The error log, each time I try to start Dovecot from a command line, has
these two lines appended:

dovecot: Jun 21 12:16:23 Error: Socket already exists:
/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server
dovecot: Jun 21 12:16:24 Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down


Following the december 2007 thread between you and Ronny:

http://dovecot.markmail.org/search/?q=cygwin+2nd

...I tried to start dovecot via inetd rather than command line, and now 
I seem to be stuck at exactly the same point. Dovecot starts, but when I 
telnet localhost 143 I see:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master
Connection closed by foreign host.

By the way, if I restart inetd and try to telnet again I get this (just
like Ronny):

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fatal: write_full(master_fd) failed: Transport endpoint is not connected
Connection closed by foreign host.

Cleaning the /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directory works for me, too.

Now, was there anything to try at this point? The old thread just
stopped here.. :-(

A.