Hi,
Thanks to the comments you asked for a try, I could find that portsentry
was listening to the port 143, thus preventing dovecot to install
completely.
Temporary stopping portsentry allows dovecot to fully install.
Re-starting portsentry after is OK too.
On my side, the issue is fixed, but to my humble opinion, dovecot should
not fail to install if a portsentry (any maybe other programs) are doing
some port scan detection.
Thank you.
Le 04/03/2018 à 21:47, Apollon Oikonomopoulos a écrit :
Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo
Control: severity -1 normal
Hi,
On 16:46 Sun 04 Mar , dAgeCKo wrote:
Trying to install dovecot on debian 9.2 leaded to error during the
post-install process, leading to dovecot partially installed and
non-working, resulting in an unusable program (all dovecot packages),
resulting in making a server unusable for email services.
Note also that the system is up-to-date (with aptitute update and aptitute
upgrade).
Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce this in a
clean stretch environment, so I'm downgrading to normal for the time
being.
Mar 04 15:34:10 utopia dovecot[55800]: Error: service(imap-login):
listen(*, 143) failed: Address already in use
So, there's something else listening on IMAP port 143 and
root@utopia:/etc/exim4# netstat -lapute | grep 143
^ this command will never show it, because the port will show up as
"imap" and not 143, since you didn't pass the -n flag.
Please try ss -nptl | grep 143 (or netstat -an | grep 143).
Regards,
Apollon
