[Workaround.org] imap problems

Dennis Guhl guhl at ikt.de
Wed Sep 1 14:58:21 CEST 2010


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Torbjørn Sandvik wrote:
> > 
> > > >OK, please provide the output of dovecot -n.
> > > 
> > > # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > 
> > >Despite the very old version it looks mostly good.
> > 
> > >Have you just tried to stop dovecot, look that nothing is left over 
> > >and
> > start it again?
> > Yes.., it's the same. No changes
> > >After that, have look at the output from 'ps aux | grep
> > "dovecot\|imap\|pop"' and 'sudo netstat -tlpn'. Also have a look at 
> > the log entries for dovecots start up.
> > srv1:~# ps aux | grep "dovecot\|imap\|pop"
> > root      1378  0.0  0.0   2004   588 ?        Ss   16:21   0:00
> > /usr/sbin/dovecot
> > root      1380  0.0  0.1   9416  2440 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> > dovecot-auth
> > root      1381  0.0  0.1   9564  2612 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> > dovecot-auth -w
> > dovecot   1386  0.0  0.0   3504  1592 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> pop3-login
> > dovecot   1387  0.0  0.0   3504  1592 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> pop3-login
> > dovecot   1388  0.0  0.0   3504  1592 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> pop3-login
> > dovecot   1389  0.0  0.0   3508  1596 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> imap-login
> > dovecot   1390  0.0  0.0   3508  1600 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> imap-login
> > dovecot   1391  0.0  0.0   3508  1600 ?        S    16:21   0:00
> imap-login
> > root      1715  0.0  0.0   3212   608 pts/0    S+   16:22   0:00 grep
> > dovecot\|imap\|pop
> > 
> > netstat -tlpn
> > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:110             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> > 1378/dovecot
> > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> > 1378/dovecot
> 
> >OK, why do you have imaps and pop3s in your dovecot.conf but nothing
> listens on these ports?
> I realy don’t know. I have just followed the guide :

Ok, but I doubt you start your dovecot with the dovecot.conf you
showed earlier in this thread.

Which, by the way, showed that you sometimes left the path of the
tutorial.

> http://workaround.org/ispmail/lenny/configure-dovecot
> Can I remove imaps and pop3s ? Don't think I'm using it.

You can remove them if you don't use them. But you should be sure
about wether you use it or not.

> >Are you sure you are querying (or using) the correct dovecot.conf?
> Hope so. Everything worked just fine for weeks. Then suddenly imap stopd
> working. 

So obviously something changed.

> There is config files under /usr/share/dovecot/ and the file I think I'm

These are example / backup files.

> using under /etc/dovecot/

These should be the only ones you use.

Do you get something additionally back if you use 'sudo find / -name
dovecot*'?

Despite this all it might be worth a shot to upgrade to 1.2 from
backports.org. A lot of errors and strange behaviour just disappear
with the upgrade.

Dennis


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