I've done the installation (rpm downloaded from the RHES4 link given by Oli below) but dovecot won't start, it gave the error pop3-login & imap-login not supported by protocol.
I'm sure with a much older version (in my previous post) of dovecot, I'm able to start up dovecot & it did not give this error. Thought dovecot is suppose to come with pop3 & imap? # rpm -Uvh --force mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm warning: mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:mysqlclient14 ########################################### [100%] /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libcpqlsptransport.so.0 is not a symbolic link [root@tmp]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql mysql-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9004-3.1 php-mysql-4.3.9-3.8 mysql-server-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 mysqlclient14-4.1.22-1.el4s1.1 <== it's there now [root@tmp]# rpm -i ./dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4.i386.rpm warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature [root@tmp]# cd /etc [root@etc]# ls -ld rc*/*dove* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc0.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc1.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc2.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc3.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc4.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc5.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 16 11:37 rc6.d/K01dovecot -> ../init.d/dovecot [root@nspplss2 etc]# ls -ld rc*/S*dove* ls: rc*/S*dove*: No such file or directory [root@nspplss2 etc]# pwd /etc [root@etc]# ls rc*/*postf* rc0.d/K30postfix rc2.d/S80postfix rc4.d/S80postfix rc6.d/K30postfix rc1.d/K30postfix rc3.d/S99postfixstart rc5.d/S80postfix [root@etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc3.d/S70dovecot [root@etc]# ln -s /etc/init.d/dovecot /etc/rc5.d/S70dovecot [root@]# init.d/dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 995) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 993) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Fatal: Failed to start listeners [FAILED] [root@etc]# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [root@etc]# rpm -qa | grep dove dovecot-2.0.9-1_125.el4 [root@etc]# chkconfig --list | grep pop3 [root@etc]# chkconfig --list | grep imap On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Oli Schacher <dove...@lists.wgwh.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:00:53 +0800 > sunhux G <sun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm on RHES 4.x > > > > I downloaded 2 dovecot RPM packages from > > http://packages.sw.be/dovecot/ > > > > dovecot-1.0.13-1.el4.rfx.i386.rpm 13-Nov-2010 22:15 1.8M > > RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit > > and > > dovecot-0.99.13-1.2.el4.test.i386.rpm 21-Feb-2005 16:57 693K > > RHEL4 and CentOS-4 x86 32bit > > > > [...] > >Q1: > >Is the test version rpm of dovecot reliable? It's only half the size > >of the other rpm (that I was not able to install) > > 0.9 / 1.0 : These versions are way out of date and you will probably > have a hard time getting support. I suggest you try the current > versions from atrpms.net We have been using the 2.0 RHEL5 packages by > Axel Thimm for quite some time now and they work flawlessly. > > Link for RHEL4 packages: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el4/dovecot/ > > Maybe this fixes Q2 as well ;-) > > Q3: You'll find lots of examples / tutorials in the dovecot wiki : > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/#HOWTOs.2C_examples_and_tutorials > > HTH > > Oli >