dovecot

[blu at vl.com (Tom Metro)]

Bill Holt wrote:
> I remember someone here recommending dovecot...

I might have been one of those people, though it has been 5 or 6 months 
since I installed it, and my memory is starting to get fuzzy on the 
details. Also, I am using the 0.9 series, and things have changed in the 
1.0 release that you're probably using.


> Everywhere I google I find how 'easy' dovecot is to install.
> True, but how to get it to work?

Have you studied the Dovecot wiki?


> Evidence says it starts up (/var/log/messages), however can't find it
> (ps -aux | grep imap), if I sart it manually 
(/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap)...

The 'dovecot' master process should take care of starting up the child 
processes needed, including the imap protocol handler, providing your 
configuration is correct. For example, make sure your 'protocols =' line 
  includes 'imap' as one of the arguments. (This may be different in 1.0.)

If that doesn't seem to be the problem, email me your config off-list 
and I'll take a look.


> ...it appears in (ps -aux | grep imap)...

Here's what the process list looks like on my 0.9 installation:

  root       800  0.0  0.1  2660  872 ?        S     2004   0:00 dovecot
  dovecot    802  0.0  0.3  4548 1496 ?        S     2004   0:00 
dovecot-auth
  dovecot   7811  0.0  0.3  2800 1552 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7812  0.0  0.3  2800 1552 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7813  0.0  0.3  2800 1552 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7814  0.0  0.3  2800 1552 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7821  0.0  0.3  2800 1552 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7839  0.0  0.2  2696 1340 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7840  0.0  0.2  2696 1340 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7841  0.0  0.2  2696 1340 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7842  0.0  0.2  2696 1340 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7843  0.0  0.2  2696 1340 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login
  dovecot   7844  0.0  0.2  2696 1340 ?        S    Feb09   0:00 imap-login


> I temporarily stopped iptables...

That won't impact the daemon from starting, but indeed might prevent it 
from accepting connections, depending on what firewall rules you have in 
place.

  -Tom