[Dovecot] Problem with opening ports in alpha5 ?

[Bruce A. Mallett]

CentOS 5.2 - 64 bit

I'll give it a try later tonight and report back tomorrow.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 09:55 -0500, Bruce A. Mallett wrote:
>   
>> If I leave the "listen" value as the default in /etc/dovecot.conf I'll
>> get a message similar to the following on each port that it tries to
>> open during startup:
>>
>> # dovecot -F
>> Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use
>>
>> If I set either:
>>     listen = *
>>
>> or
>>    listen = [::]
>>
>> then it will start up fine.  Perhaps it is as though the code tries to
>> open the port twice for both ip4 and ip6?
>>     
>
> I can't reproduce this with current hg. Could you try if this still
> happens with nightly snapshots? If it does, dovecot -n output might show
> something useful. Oh and what OS are you using?
>
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