[Dovecot] 2.0 not starting

Luciano Mannucci luciano at vespaperitivo.it
Tue Aug 17 17:47:38 EEST 2010


Hi everybody,

I tried to upgrade my 1.2.13 dovecot to 2.0. The configure/make/install
process seemed to work flawlessly. I created the dovenull user, converted
my config with

#src/config/doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot.conf  > /tmp/dovecot.conf

and moved the result manually to /etc/dovecot. By typing "dovecot" (after
having stopped the previous instance :), I get:

Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address already in use
Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use
Fatal: Failed to start listeners

tough nor "netstat -ta" nor "lsof -i" do show anything using port 110
or 143.

What did I wrong? 

Here is my doveconf -n:

baobab:/usr/src/local/mail/dovecot/current/dovecot-2.0.0 # doveconf -n
# 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.27.45-0.1-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) ext3
doveconf: Warning: Dovecot was last started using /etc/dovecot.conf, but this
config is /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf auth_cache_size = 3072
auth_debug = yes
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_username_format = %Lu
auth_verbose = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no
first_valid_gid = 0
first_valid_uid = 100
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/logfile.info
log_path = /var/log/dovecot/logfile
login_greeting = Dovecot at Baobab ready.
mail_location =
mbox:/var/spool/mailboxes/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:DIRNAME=mbox:INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes/%u
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no namespace {
  inbox = yes
  location = 
  prefix = 
  separator = .
  type = private
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  quota = maildir
  quota_rule = *:storage=300M
}
protocols = pop3 imap
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
  user = root
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imaps {
    address = 212.45.144.44, 212.45.144.70, 192.168.134.44
  }
  process_limit = 512
}
service pop3-login {
  inet_listener pop3s {
    address = 212.45.144.44, 212.45.144.70, 192.168.134.44
  }
  process_limit = 512
}
ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/ca.crt
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
version_ignore = yes
protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail
  mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
}
protocol pop3 {
  mail_plugins = quota
  pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
  pop3_enable_last = yes
}
protocol lda {
  postmaster_address = postmaster at mcs.it
}

luciano.
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