[Dovecot] dovecot from debian lenny-backports does not accept connections

[Joelly Alexander]

yes, it shows a summary what is configured, but not that there is a 
problem with one of the settings;
only the 'restart' of the dovecot service generates a error in the 
logfile which point you to the problem, a 'reload' sets the configured 
value but does not generate a error;
also not when clients want to connect via imap - you see in the logs 
only that the client trys to connect several times until it hits the 
'mail_max_userip_connections' and the imap processes hang until you kill 
them hard manually;



On 15.05.2010 21:05, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2010-05-15 2:54 PM, Joelly Alexander wrote:
>    
>> found the error - i had a typo in dovecot.conf
>>
>> lock_method: fnctl
>> should be
>> lock_method: fcntl
>>
>> dovecot reload does not show a problem, only a stop/start generated the
>> entry in the logfile....
>>
>> two days for a stupid typo....
>>      
> dovecot -n should also show the problem...
>
>