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fabulous
09-09-2008, 12:06 PM
dovecot Process is stopped

An error has occurred :
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot start 2>&1

so , how can i delete dovecot??

system: freebsd6.2 ,DA setup for costbu custombuild 1.1


web# dovecot
Fatal: listen(0.0.0.0, 143) failed: Address already in use
chatwizrd
09-09-2008, 12:09 PM
Why would you want to delete it? You are just going to break your entire system.
fabulous
09-09-2008, 10:51 PM
Why would you want to delete it? You are just going to break your entire system.

but, How repair?
help me please.:)
nobaloney
09-10-2008, 01:09 PM
Reinstall Dovecot. Do NOT rerun the todovecot command, though.

Jeff
tsiou
09-11-2008, 02:21 AM
First, before dovecot start run a ps auuuxww |grep dovecot
to see if its already running.
The error means that dovecot is running or da_pop deamon (if you updated) is running.
chatwizrd
09-11-2008, 06:58 AM
Reinstall Dovecot. Do NOT rerun the todovecot command, though.

Jeff

That wont do nothing I have run it many times. It never breaks anything.
nobaloney
09-14-2008, 08:59 PM
chatwizrd, if you've NOT deleted your old pop mailboxes and you run todovecot again it certainly WILL do something. It will create new copies in the Maildir mailboxes of all emails left in the old pop mailboxes.

So my point is quite valid.

Jeff
Reyner
01-31-2010, 03:09 AM
I just had the same issue for my new server install. The dovecot was installed, but was not in sync with the PID. The fix for me is this:

echo '' > /var/run/dovecot/master.pid
service dovecot restart

I am using:
CentOS 5.4 32-bit
DirectAdmin custombuild default install

I hope this helps for those who's experiencing the same issue.