[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.8 defaults to require ipv6 ?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jan 5 19:02:07 EET 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:08 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:02:12PM +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> > FYI it seems dovecot 2.0.8 fails to start on RHEL5 with IPv6 disabled
> > ("alias net-pf-10 off" in modprobe.conf) unless one specify "listen = *".
> 
> i.e., without "listen = *" it complains:
> 
> 	Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address already in use
> 	Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 995) failed: Address already in use
> 	Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use
> 	Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 993) failed: Address already in use
> 	Error: service(director): listen(::, 5515) failed: Address already in use
> 
> which at minimum is a confusing error message...

With http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/cde0d403c6ff you get a better
error message.

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