Hi,
I'm trying to test Dovecot as an IMAP ans POP3 server but I ran into a
fatal problem.
On the client side (telnet) I'm trying very basic IMAP commands :
$ telnet localhost imap
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot ready.
1 LOGIN lavande secret
1 OK Logged in.
Connection closed by foreign host.
The login succeeds but the connection hangs !
On the server side it complains that the configuration file dovecot.conf
is invalid (it was copied from dovecot-example.conf) but it never tells
what line number is incorrect. dovecot -a or dovecot -n doesn't complain
about a syntax error or something.
It works for POP3 for the same user/pass.
# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot.conf
dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:42 Info: Dovecot v1.0.8 starting up
dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<lavande>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Error: Dovecot is already
running with PID 4369 (read from
/opt/dovecot-1.0.8/var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: Invalid
configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf
dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: IMAP(lavande): Fatal: EOF while reading
environment from master
dovecot: Nov 28 15:43:53 Error: child 4380 (imap) returned error 89
Best regards,
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Laurent PELLISSIER @ Ecole des Mines d'Alès
