Tim Legg wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian machine that is virtual-hosting 6 domains with exim4. I > finally got exim4 working well enough where I can send and receive mail using > the mail command on my machine. I would eventually like to have SquirrelMail > (which requires IMAP) working on my website. For whatever reason, exim4 > doesn't seem to support IMAP. I found out that Dovecot is a prominent IMAP > server.
Exim and its counterparts (Postfix, Sendmail, etc.) is an SMTP server. > So I installed the most current Dovecot package (1.0.rc15) in Debian. > Something is broken though... > > As I log into SquirrelMail, I get an error message "Error connecting to IMAP > server: localhost. 111 : Connection refused". To investigate, I decided to > telnet localhost on port 143 and found out that yes, the connection is in > fact refused. > > So what do I need to do in order to have dovecot listen on port 143? > > Also, I noticed when I restart dovecot... > > debian:/etc/dovecot# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart > Restarting mail server: dovecotError: Can't use mail executable > /usr/lib/dovecot/imap: No such file or directory > > I hope this isn't a serious problem. > You probably didn't install the dovecot-imap package. ~Seth
