On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 09:55 -0500, Bruce A. Mallett wrote: > If I leave the "listen" value as the default in /etc/dovecot.conf I'll > get a message similar to the following on each port that it tries to > open during startup: > > # dovecot -F > Fatal: listen(::, 143) failed: Address already in use > > If I set either: > listen = * > > or > listen = [::] > > then it will start up fine. Perhaps it is as though the code tries to > open the port twice for both ip4 and ip6?
I can't reproduce this with current hg. Could you try if this still happens with nightly snapshots? If it does, dovecot -n output might show something useful. Oh and what OS are you using?
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