On Friday 25 Nisan 5771 16:39:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Updating to the Sid version was a catastrophe--flagged all kinds of > > superseded syntax warning which were flagged as errors when I tried to > > edit them into the conf file. Commented out, got listening errors for > > various 9## ports. > > > > > > > > So I downgraded to the testing version and used a backed up conf file. > > > > > > > > No startup errors, dmesg, nothing, but "localhost refuses connection" > > when trying to access imap on the system. From outside, "server not > > found." > > > > > > > > Nothing like this is listed in the bugs. Has anyone encountered such > > problems, fix them? > > I would start with the usual tests: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
Process is not running. There is no log entry after those listener errors (995 and 993) for the unstable install. The downgraded testing install has no entries at all.