Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.

[dtaju]

Hi,
I have install FC2 and qmailtoaster. The webmail is SquirrelMail version 1.4.3a-1.
I also configure the dovecot.conf file at /etc
with this:

protocols = imap imaps

imap_listen = *
pop3_listen = *

auth_userdb = vpopmail
auth_passdb = vpopmail
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir

I have try: service dovecot status
dovecot dead but subsys locked

I stiil got on webmail
Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost.
111 : Connection refused

What have I done wrong?

[breun]

I don't know, but today my dovecot suddenly stopped working and now also says "dovecot dead but subsys locked" when i run "service dovecot status" (although "service dovecot start" seems to run OK). "service dovecot stop" fails. I'm on FC3 and dovecot-0.99.11-1.1.fc2.dag, but get the same response using dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4 (isn't that supposed to be -1.4.FC3 by the way?). these are both default clean unmodified installs (default dovecot.conf).

[breun]

When I run "service dovecot start" after booting (dovecot not set to start automatically) this is added to /var/log/maillog:

Nov 11 23:00:53 breuniac dovecot: Dovecot starting up
Nov 11 23:00:54 breuniac dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down
Nov 11 23:00:54 breuniac imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

What could be the problem? I want local users to be able to log in using their account username and password. I have these lines in /etc/dovecot.conf

auth_userdb = passwd
auth_passdb = shadow (default: auth_passdb = pam)

I also set auth_verbose = yes, but where can I find this verbose output on authentication? /var/log/maillog tells me no more than that the "Auth process died too early".

[breun]

I mailed the author of dovecot and the told me to check the output of ldd /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth. According to the output dovecot-auth was missing libmysqlclient.so.10 on my machine. Strangely enough it was installed in /usr/lib/mysql as part of the mysql package. Just to be sure I reinstalled mysql and now dovecot works again!

[asommer]

Thanks for the info...I had the same problem on FC3 upgraded from FC2. I downloaded MySQL from thier site though and needed to install:

MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.7-0.i386.rpm

for it to work....Just an FYI.

thanks again.